Film
Donald Glover's Guava Island Is a Visual Delight, and That's the Point
Guava Island is a fun, colorful, anti-capitalist romp that leaves viewers smiling.
Review
Film
Ash Is Purest White Is a Gangland China Love Story
The writer-director's latest feature film chronicles China's socioeconomic transformation through the eyes of a couple caught up in the criminal underworld.
Art
The LA Rebellion Filmmakers and Their Continued Relevance 50 Years Later
Art + Practice brings together the works of the LA Rebellion filmmakers and the works of younger generations of Black artists, filmmakers, storytellers, and scholars working in Los Angeles.
Art
Kader Attia's Work Holds a Mirror to the World's Injustice
Attia links seemingly disparate things and gives them new meanings by mining history, politics, literature, religion, art, anthropology, and medicine to find echoes everywhere.
Art
Angela Dufresne Queers the Portraiture Tradition
The Brooklyn-based painter's intimate portraits of her mostly queer artist friends play with gender fluidity, sexual ambiguity, and a collaborative creative process.
Books
Contrariness and Subtle Humor from a 19th-Century Proto-Feminist Art Writer
A recently published volume of Vernon Lee's writing reveals a woman who is a product of privilege, as well as someone who used what it afforded her to resist the status quo.
Art
The Timely Dissent of a Vietnam War-Themed Show
Less than a mile from the White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Artists Respond boldly surveys how artists wrestled with showing how their government had gone wrong.
Art
Blueprints for Our Future Planet as It Moves Toward Extinction
Two artists wrestle with the intersections of technology and massive ecological shifts brought on by the Anthropocene.
Books
A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History
Saidiya Hartman's new book of speculative fiction unearths the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.
Art
A Photographer of Forgotten Men
Lee Nye’s subjects were the predominantly blue-collar patrons of Eddie’s Club, where he worked as a bartender between the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Art
Joanna Pousette-Dart’s Landscape
Pousette-Dart’s career is proof that the art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.
Art
Miriam Cahn’s Alluring, Angry Art
If some of Cahn’s images are unexpected or unsettling, it is because, quite simply, they are the expressions of a very self-aware woman’s unapologetic point of view.