Art
Aria Dean Searches for an “Ontology of Blackness”
In Dean's works, we shuttle between experiences as personally lived and the sweeping generalizations of the media and historical modernism.
Review
Film
Chris Marker’s Little-Known TV Series on Ancient Greece
Marker’s The Owl’s Legacy presents a complex portrait of Ancient Greece in 13 episodes that revolve around single words.
Art
Reality and Artifice Collide at Gowanus Open Studios
Collage was the process of choice at this year's open studios, mashing up decades, styles, processes, and technologies across works.
Film
A Neorealist Portrait of Black Single Motherhood in Post-Recession Florida
In his latest film, Life and Nothing More, Spanish director Antonio Méndez Esparza employed non-professional actors and documentary realism to create a moving study of race, class, and familial bonds in America.
Art
Condensing Years of Internet Browsing History into a Single Frame
Kazuki Umezawa's “internet landscapes” vividly capture the schizophrenic experience of the internet.
Art
Artists Reinterpret Classic Fairy Tales, from Rapunzel to Snow White
In Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, 21 artists draw on age-old fantasy stories to explore contemporary social issues.
Art
A Video Game Shows the True Colors of Ancient Greece
For a video game that includes extraterrestrial beings and time travel, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is shockingly faithful to what Ancient Greece looked like during its golden age.
Art
Generations of Indigenous Voices from New York State
What unites this patchwork exhibition is the land: The artists are all Native Americans whose ancestry is tied to the place now known as New York State.
Music
How to Construct a K-Pop Thrill
With the exception of Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” the American market has been tough for Korean record labels to crack, until now.
Art
Arpita Singh Makes Her Mark
When Singh came to a crossroads in her art, she went back to basics: the line and dot.
Art
The Spiraling Logic of Paul Mogensen's Paintings
Mogensen's primary interest is not in reiterating the picture plane, but in activating it.
Art
Painting's Patriarchal Spirit
Thirty-seven years after the original exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts, A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now proves painting is still a boys' club.