Art
From the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a Gilded Coffin to Die For
Created in the last century of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Nedjemankh's coffin reconfigures how we understand Ancient Egypt's transition from autonomous empire to Roman province.
Review
Art
A Canadian Museum Rehangs Its Collection to Center Feminism and Race
Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton highlight the dual role of programming and outreach in light of identity politics and the erasure of women in one of the nation’s oldest art institutions.
Art
The Quiet Chaos in Lee Ufan’s New Paintings
A master of meditative minimalism, the Korean artist's new paintings are more frenetically energized than ever before.
Art
Taking Apart the War Machine to See What's Inside
By centering the actual machinery of war, Mary Mattingly's exhibition, What Happens After, pushes viewers who haven’t experienced war to consider what it must be like.
Film
Jean-Luc Godard’s Latest Film Pushes the Limits of Montage
Godard's most recent film uses jagged visual and sonic cuts to connect to world and cinematic history.
Art
The Infinite Worlds Made from Pins
Tamiko Kawata's current exhibition offers a metaphor to help us grapple with how meaning is made.
Books
How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.
Art
A Detroit Bartender Paints Portraits of Heavy-Drinking Patrons
Painter Thelonius Bone says his new series, called "Alcoholics Anonymous," is about “wanting to be unknown and unseen, rather than about recovery."
Performance
The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
Art
An Insomniac Photographer Documents India’s Cities at Night
Over an eight-year period, Dhruv Malhotra spent sleepless nights wandering the streets of Noida, a satellite of Delhi, creating otherworldly photographs of the nocturnal cityscape.
Art
Rethinking the Laws of Nature at Helsinki's New Amos Rex Museum
The choice of the teamLab collective for the opening exhibition of the Amos Rex Museum indicates that the museum's mission is sharing the exuberant power of art.
Art
Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History
The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.