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.
Review
Film
Three New Documentaries Chronicle the Careers of Game-Changing New York Artists
At Doc NYC, America's largest documentary film festival, directors examine the lives and works of artists Barbara Rubin, Jay Maisel, and Christo.
Books
A Cartoonist Takes Aim at the Art World
Cartoonist Matthew Thurber doesn’t leave us with a clean moral or tidy ending to his series of comic jabs at the art world and its institutions.
Art
A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge
At museum-hotel chain 21c's new Kansas City location, an art exhibit reflects on immigration and refuge.
Art
How Mexican and Chicanx Activism Flourished in 20th-Century Los Angeles
Political art-making and organizing have continued unabated for over a century in Los Angeles, starting with an influential newspaper by two anarchist Mexican brothers.
Art
Grand Narratives of Freedom and Identity Dominate the Latvian Capital's First Biennial
While some works in the Riga Biennial address a specific historical event, only a handful explore individual or personal stories.
Art
How Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods Lay the Foundation for His Art
Whether or not one considers Picasso a prodigy, Musée d'Orsay's Picasso. Blue and Rose allows the public to bask in the world of a young, energetic, and sensitive artist.
Art
Luis Camnitzer’s Critique of Power Is as Relevant as Ever
Camnitzer’s retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía surveys his ironic, bluntly critical work since the 1960s.
Film
Two Feminist Directors Who Exposed the Trials of Working Class Women
While the female protagonists in Barbara Loden's Wanda and Susan Seidelman's Smithereens may be lost — and legitimately poor — the one thing they are not is self-pitying.
Books
Ranjit Hoskote's Poems Visit a Kingdom of Shadows
Hoskote's poems describe a landscape of doubt and loss.
Art
The Last Testament of Michael Mazur
At the end of his life, Mazur wanted to evoke his passage into chaos, to compose his farewell.
Art
The Politics of the Gallery Display
Gaylen Gerber's Supports, on view at the Arts Club of Chicago, continues to raise questions about what happens to an object when we place it in a gallery.