Art
A Vibrant Arts Community Bridges Two Cities Separated by a Contentious Border
A cultural community has emerged in San Diego and Tijuana that recognizes where the cities diverge but also where they overlap.
Review
Art
An Artist’s Artist Gets His Due in Mexico City
Timoney presents a kind of salon-style show, but all emerging from a single mind.
Performance
After Almost 40 Years, Torch Song Still Lights the Way on Broadway
Until Harvey Fierstein changed the tenor of queer theatre in 1982 with the Broadway debut of his Torch Song Trilogy, gay figures in media typically came in three flavors: depressed, bitter, and suicidal.
Books
The Colorful Cocoons of Hong Kong's Bamboo Scaffolding
Photographer Peter Steinhauer spent two decades photographing the traditional bamboo scaffolding that endures in Hong Kong.
Art
The Baroque Violence of Jusepe de Ribera
The UK’s first show of the famously gruesome seventeenth century Spanish painter places his monumental works in historical context.
Art
How Should We Look at Cornelius Gurlitt's Trove of Nazi-Looted Art?
Gurlitt: Status Report, An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany makes a long-hidden art collection with a dark provenance accessible to the public.
Art
How to Envision the Revolution
The Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1 exhibition suggests that agency has everything to do with seeing rather merely being seen.
Art
Queering the Art Historical Record to Make Space for an Invented Artist
Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938): The Lost Murals is a wonderfully mischievous lark that teases queerness out of an art historical epoch whose scholars seldom acknowledge the homosexuality of its most famous stars.
Art
Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art makes a compelling case for why we should be looking at the art of the everyday and why it is remarkable.
Art
Pioneers of German Expressionism Who Teetered on the Edge of Abstraction
With Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914, the Neue Galerie implicitly argues that the two artists belong among the pantheon of Europe's modern masters.
Performance
In a Santa Monica Parking Lot, Performance Artists Air Their Grievances
The 18th Street Art Center celebrated its 30th anniversary with We the Artists, a multimedia festival in which residents expressed rage and frustration toward the political climate.
Art
An Artist's Impressions of New York City's Most Exclusive Funeral Home
Painter Cynthia Talmadge successfully captures the inherent grimness of funeral chapels combined with the contrived austerity that celebrity deaths demand.