Music
Janelle Monáe's Political Sex
Monáe’s Dirty Computer is an ambitious, politically outspoken, all-encompassing pop-R&B statement album.
Review
Art
Filling Art History’s Feminist Gaps
The testimonies of Navjot Altaf and Judy Chicago speak to silence, as truth does to power.
Art
A Rescue Mission for Venezuelan Modernism
A number of significant Venezuelan artists, whose work is focused on improvisational methods and art’s material nature, are virtually unknown in the US.
Art
Photographing the Women of British Art
Mayotte Magnus’s Illuminating Women features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors, and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the Feminist movement of the 1970s.
Art
Elise Siegel and Her Inscrutable Heads
Siegel’s sculptures recall the great screen actors whose faces projected profound and precise shifts of feeling.
Art
Being Gay Under Trump
Ron Amato’s exhibition Gay in Trumpland explores the dark fear many gay men are internalizing as President Trump and his inner circle remove rights and protections for LGBTQ individuals.
Books
Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.
Art
The Penetrating Gaze of Portrait Busts
While Elise Siegel's sculptures take the form of traditional portrait busts, they are anything but.
Film
An Artist Duo’s Ingenious Movie About US Military Bases in Japan
The documentary, titled Making a Perfect Donut, is particularly timely given protests currently going on over the construction of a new base in Henoko.
Art
An 18th-Century Designer of Fantastical Bodies and Imaginary Buildings Is Posthumously Recognized
Once relegated to academic footnotes as a bemusing curio, Jean-Jacques Lequeu is finally being fully recognized for his cheeky and dazzling drawings.
Art
A YouTuber Illuminates the History of American Urban Development
In the series called Franklin we watch a city get built over time, beginning centuries back and then evolving in a way which mirrors the growth of many real American cities.
Art
Artists Recognize the Benefits of a Parasite-Host Relationship
Inspired by the curator's manifesto, artists look at how points where the parasite and the host engage or “interrupt” each other.