Music
The Protest Music We’ve Been Waiting For
New albums from Superchunk, Noname, Blood Orange, and Tune-Yards strike a blow for the resistance.
Review
Art
The Brutalist Invasion of Phyllida Barlow
Barlow’s sculptures may be abstract, but they feel rife with heads, teeth, legs, and orifices of every stripe.
Film
"Strippers Are Artists": A Documentary Celebrates Famed Portland Performer Viva Las Vegas
Thank You for Supporting the Arts chronicles the career of a writer, musician, and breast cancer survivor who sees her stripping as an art form.
Art
Brash, Self-flattering, Macho Excess at the Musée d'Orsay
In an exhibition timed to promote the release of Julian Schnabel’s film about Vincent van Gogh, the museum juxtaposes 13 paintings from its 19th century collection with 11 of Schnabel's works.
Art
Contemporary East Asian Photography Through the Lens of Time
The individual visual narratives in Time Frames make up our collective human history.
Books
Why Leftist Activists Should Learn to "Follow the Money"
In Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age, Belgian philosopher Michel Feher proposes strategies for activists in an age of unchecked finance capitalism.
Art
Emerging LGBTQ Artists Find Hope Amid a Grim Political Landscape
The Queer Art Mentorship (QAM) annual exhibition, Here & Not Yet, comes at a critical moment for the LGBTQ community.
Books
A New Collection of Saul Steinberg’s Influential Cartoons
The Labyrinth, originally published in 1960 and long out of print, is the perfect introduction or reintroduction to Steinberg's incomparable style.
Art
Hip-Hop’s Love of Remix Is Influencing Architecture
The upside of an exhibition about hip-hop architecture, a movement in its infancy, is that it’s hard to pigeonhole. But it’s also hard to determine what visually brings all the works together.
Art
A Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition Blurs the Lines Between Art, Commerce, and Entertainment
The exhibition flounders in part simply because of the blatant application of its own commercial terms on the viewer, most especially, on children and their parents.
Art
An Exhibition Critically Explores the History of Missionaries in Hawai'i
Pulling objects from the collections of Williams College, "The Field is the World" questions how these contentious histories have existed and how they can change.
Art
Revisiting Britain's Response to the Nazi "Degenerate Art" Show
London 1938: Defending “Degenerate” German Art tells the story of a monumental British exhibition of artists persecuted by the Nazis.