Art
In 1972, Snow Monkeys Were Sent to a Texas Desert. Do They Still Remember Snow?
Curious if the monkeys' memory of snow remained decades later, artist Shimabuku brought a pile of it to the desert.
Review
Film
Never Look Away Is a Reductive, Tedious Copy of Gerhard Richter’s Life
It is easy to see why this movie would rankle Richter, who has said the director "managed to abuse and grossly distort" his biography.
Film
An Animated Masterpiece by the Unsung Co-Founder of Studio Ghibli
Before 2016, Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday was considered the “lost” Ghibli film.
Books
How John Berger Restores Our Relationship to Art
A new biography on Berger reveals a writer who to this day speaks most eloquently and passionately to our frustrations, fears, hopes, and desires.
Art
Rediscover One of the First Artists Who Choreographed Dance for Film
A stunning exhibition of Sara Kathryn Arledge makes a strong case for her as an overlooked artist deserving reevaluation and rediscovery.
Film
In Midnight Traveler, a Refugee Family Documents Their Journeys
For over two years, Hassan Fazili's family filmed each other as they journeyed through Europe, documenting each step of their search for a safe place.
Books
An Eerie Book Fuses Snippets of Text with Found Imagery
In Guestbook: Ghost Stories, Leanne Shapton suggests that hauntings occur when the past’s bony fingers grasp at the present, touching us like a ghost might.
Film
A Documentarian Who Recorded Nature's Tiniest Creatures
For his debut film, Minute Bodies, musician turned director Stuart A. Staples has chosen to highlight an all but unknown British documentarian and naturalist.
Art
Julio Le Parc's Brilliant Op Art Beginnings
The Argentinian modernist tried obsessively to bring order to chaos, even in the midst of unrelenting flux.
Books
A New Book Probes Duchamp's Last Hours of Life
Duchamp's Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.
Music
Bhad Bhabie's Fear of Fame
Bhad Bhabie is our era’s perfect musical antihero: a teenager forced into the spotlight, learning to rap as a survival mechanism.
Books
A Writer's Choice to Be Borderline Invisible
Small presses and editions remind us that that we're free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion.