Art
Bernar Venet's Retrospective Creates a Modernist Mausoleum
Like tumbled tombstones marking the graveyard of self-referential Modernism, the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon presents a remarkable set of remembrances to ponder.
Review
Art
A Timely Remembrance For Witch Hunts Of The Past by Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor
A pilgrimage to visit Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor’s Norwegian memorial made for victims of the witchcraft trials hits home.
Film
Luca Guadagnino’s Indulgent Remake of Suspiria
The new Suspiria, more in line with modern sensibilities of "elevated" horror, is extremely different in form, feeling, and theme.
Art
An Ohio Sculpture Festival that Is Curiously Light on Sculpture
Heavy on interactive works, audience intervention, and social practice art, Toledo's annual sculpture festival raises the question of why we organize festivals around the theme of common discipline.
Film
Frederick Wiseman Films the Humanity of a Midwestern Town in 2018
Monrovia, Indiana isn’t quite the scintillating investigation into life in a red state that audiences might expect.
Performance
A Marxist Performance Pays Participants for Oversharing and Simulated Sex
The directed actions in Ivo Dimchev's P Project progressed from audience members dancing alone in front strangers to nude performers simulating sex.
Art
Approaching the Body Through Touch Instead of Vision
Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s current show posits touch above all other sense.
Art
A Window Into the Lives of Women Living in Cairo
Though at times seeming incomplete, Judith Barry's exhibition lends space to the otherwise untold stories of women in Cairo.
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.
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.