Film
Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
Review
Art
The Gospel at Colonus Brings Greek Tragedy to Church
Church parishioners gathered on Thursday evening, not to attend to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but to study the final chapter of the life of that ill-fated king of Thebes, Oedipus.
Art
A Treasure Trove of Oddities and Timely Exhibitions at Oxford's Ethnography Museum
Originally defined as an academic museum of Anthropology and World Archeology, the Pitt Rivers Museum has morphed into something much more extensive and meaningful.
Film
A Movie Uncovers Unpublished Letters Written to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s
Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
Art
Reimagining Artworks as Actors and the Gallery as a Stage
For General Rehearsal, authors wrote scenes for fictional productions, selecting works of art instead of characters.
Art
The Artists Who Led Secret Lives as Musicians
Double Lives showcases the sound-based creations of people better known as artists than musicians.
Art
The Wondrous Alchemy of William Cordova’s Sculptures
In his first museum survey, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Peruvian-born artist William Cordova creates a mostly-wordless history book through his enchanting sculptures, drawings, and installations.
Art
Neighbors Converge and Share Their Memories Around a Public Art Project in LA
Together the neighbors have built an incomplete history of the empty lot where Tanya Brodsky installed her sculpture earlier this summer.
Art
How Female Sculptors Are Pushing the Bounds of Metal as a Medium
"Heavy Metal", on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, showcases women artists working with a stereotypically masculine material.
Art
Understanding Contemporary Caribbean Art Outside of the Latin American Framework
Trying to subsume the Caribbean into a discourse of Latin America or America, curators argue, limits the ability to account for differences between islands.
Art
Tapestries that Mend the Divides Between Mexico and the US
Tanya Aguiñiga's work results from a lifetime of creating textile pieces from broken and found threads.
Art
The Deeply Shared Rhythms and Patterns of Paintings and Quilts
Both Allie McGhee, a painter, and Carole Harris, a fiber artist, are lifelong Detroiters, and both have established a signature aesthetic akin to visual jazz.