Film
Barry Jenkins’s Tender Adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
Jenkins brings a visual richness to the story, accentuating the emotional undertones of Baldwin’s words.
Review
Art
The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos
Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
Art
Clyfford Still, as Seen Through His Daughter’s Eyes
Sandra Still offers sharp judgments on celebrated paintings and brilliant details about her father during his most reclusive period.
Art
The Complete History of Cubism in One Blockbuster Exhibition
The first exhibition devoted to Cubism in France since 1953 illustrates how the radical art movement shattered western pictorial conventions.
Art
Play a Free, Short Game Every Day This Year
Meditations is a year-long project offering 365 short games, each playable only on the day of its release.
Books
A Poet Invents Her Voice
Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart is a beautiful monster of a book coming at you straight, with no padding of preface or foreword to warn you what you might be in for.
Books
Digging Into Memory and Time
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Art
Brian Belott's Time Pieces
Belott’s “frozen artworks” signify duration in the interval between the water freezing and the ice melting.
Books
The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
For seven years, Andrew Moisey documented the debauchery of university fraternities. His photographs evince an unsettling ritual of malevolent machismo.
Books
A MoMA Anthology Conceives of the Art of Central and Eastern Europe Beyond the Post-Communist Lens
The anthology arrives at a crucial time to speak about the art scenes of European post-communist societies and their common conditions of transformation.
Art
The Romantic Gloom of Delacroix
His lush paintings make you feel Romanticism in your guts.
Art
Imagining Utopia in Rina Banerjee’s Whimsical Cornucopias
Cobbled together from materials including cowrie shells, Yoruba masks, horns, Japanese mosquito nets, and crocodile heads, Rina Banerjee's fantastical sculptures present a utopian vision of globalism.