Art
A Hand-Painted Animation Tells a Moving Story About Depression
Suzan Pitt’s Joy Street is strikingly unpretentious and emotionally frank — refreshing in an art world that is often emotionally detached and intellectually cool.
Review
Art
Fragmented Sculptures Evoke the Gaps of Memory
Looking at each of Cayetano Ferrer’s works is like waiting for a photograph to come into focus, or retelling an old story and making up bits for the parts you’ve forgotten.
Art
The Politics and Limits of Transportation Systems Around the World
An exhibition presents a decade’s worth of research on how people get around with transportation systems that can both lead to and help resolve social inequalities.
Art
How Photography and Jazz Merged to Forge the "Black Is Beautiful" Movement
Kwame Brathwaite's photographs fused the two mediums to push the boundaries of beauty, transforming how we define Blackness.
Art
The Power of Deception to Subvert Heteronormativity
Artist Pixy Liao subverts gender norms with a playful yet threatening humor.
Art
A Photographer's Intimate Infinitude
David Lebe has often relied on alternative photographic processes to create powerful depictions of queer bodies.
Art
Visions of Urgent Abstraction
DC-area artist Rushern Baker IV’s abstractions attempt to find meaning in the chaotic world outside the canvas.
Art
What Revolution Might Look Like
This show is different from many of the previous at the 8th Floor gallery precisely because it is so intertwined with the theme of voices and their sounds.
Film
The Tender Turns of the Crime Drama Dogman
Balancing verité grit with sometimes-howling humor, Matteo Garrone's new movie is subtler than what viewers might anticipate.
Music
Billie Eilish's Creepy, Crawly Pop
Eilish’s debut album is an exercise in comic horror.
Books
Wallace Berman's Magical World
If you have any interest in the wild array of people who defined the West Coast bohemian world, you must read Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World.
Art
The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?