Art
Seth Price’s Digital Dissolution
Price works over his photographs with chemicals, polymer fluids, and powdered earth — decimating digital data through analog means.
Review
Art
Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer's large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2018
The creation and interpretation of art remains an anchor and a refuge, a sanctuary for vanishing ideals.
Art
Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem
Director Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph's "Fly Paper" transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava's 1950s portraits of Harlem.
Art
Artists and Poets Look at Homelands from a Distance
The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands at the Arab American National Museum amplifies individual immigrant voices, presenting them as fully human rather than as statistical abstractions.
Art
Material Messages Between Earth and the Divine
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York examines 4,000 years of votive offerings.
Art
History and Myth Emanate in the Art Made in the Sunshine State
Interlopers and transplants convey the decay and loveliness of a place in works from 1750 - 1969.
Film
Miami Told Through Old Photographs and Lost Stories
Screening in New York for the holidays, a new film draws on photos Gary Monroe and Andy Sweet took as a part of the Miami Beach Photographic Project through the 1970s and into the early 80s.
Art
A Rare Persian Textile Offers a Surprising Insight Into Paradise
The renowned Wagner Garden Carpet is more than just its measured dimensions — it is also incredibly complex.
Film
An Enchanting Film About How its Director Came to Be a Filmmaker
Shirkers, an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity, delivers a story of ultimate geekiness, as director Sandi Tan sketches a portrait of her younger self.
Books
Many Stories Are Told Through the Typography in Science Fiction Films
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner, Typeset in the Future examines the typography and design that filmmakers have used to lend a believability to visions of the future.
Books
A New Anthology Amplifies the Voices of Queer Poets of Color
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color features works by literary legends like Audre Lorde and James Baldwin alongside contemporaries like Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, and Danez Smith.