Art
Nina Chanel Abney’s Intricately Dense and Critically Clear Painting
The Chicago-born artist's work is as entrenched in political discourse as it is in pop culture.
Review
Art
A Show on Conspiracies Fails to Differentiate Fact from Opinion
Conspiracy theories have gone mainstream in 2018, but the Met Breuer's exhibition downplays the political importance and danger of their existence.
Art
Malcolm Morley's Paintings Render the Regalia of War
Morley engaged the monster of warfare by making it unreal, posing knights like children’s toys.
Art
Self-Portraits in a Vanished World
Segedin’s is an art of self-examination that opens out onto a real, lived, and, in many ways, vanished world.
Art
The Graphite Hallucinations of Gray Foy
Through his subtle, intermittent anthropomorphizing of natural forms everything in Foy's meticulous drawings begins to border on the apparitional.
Art
Eddie Owens Martin's Transformation into an Outsider Saint
Appreciating Martin’s sense of identity as constantly shifting is central to understanding his art.
Art
Suellen Rocca Turns an Inward Eye
Rocca's drawings evidence an interior gaze and the working out of psychological states.
Art
EJ Hill's Art for Bodies that Refuse to Comply
For EJ Hill, to stand and remember is an act of ultimate resistance.
Art
Yugoslavia's Complicated Modernism
The 20th-century architecture of Yugoslavia was the result of a concerted national effort to modernize and unify.
Film
A Visual, Mesmerizing Journey of Clothing and Fabric Around the World
Jodie Mack’s irresistible travelogue The Grand Bizarre weaves together a kaleidoscopic meditation on how our clothes tie us together.
Film
Shakedown Documents the Overt Sexuality of Lesbian Strip Clubs, and Then Shifts Our Gaze
In a documentary about Black female strippers who dance for women, Leilah Weinraub makes us question how we think about sex and its presentation on camera.
Art
Seducing the Viewer to Have a Roll in the Hay at the Louvre Lens
The exhibition Love is like a series of loosely related theory or fiction discussions that become most interesting when they overreach to the point of self-contradiction.