Art
A Golden Critique of Colonialism
Carlos Rolón's latest body of work transforms the iconography of Spanish colonialism in the Americas while elevating memories and images from his childhood in Chicago's Puerto Rican community.
Review
Art
Images of Joy in Central Park from 1970s New York
The photographs in the exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery create a sub-narrative to New York during its time of crisis, imparting an uncommon joie de vivre in a story that is commonly defined in terms of disintegration and sadness.
Art
The Alluring Dance of Selfies and Self-Portraits
An exhibition in Venice celebrates the glitz and grandeur of self-portraits by star artists at a time when members of the public are increasingly wary about sharing images of themselves.
Art
An Exhibition that Posits Art as Evidence of Environmental Collapse
The current show at the SculptureCenter demonstrates how far contemporary artists have gone to transform their work into documentary evidence on the political threshold.
Art
The Promises and Perils of Early American Photography on Paper
In this show, photography offers a rich understanding of a diverse, divided, by turns confident and anxious United States bent on territorial and economic expansion from the 1840s to the 1860s.
Film
In Her Films, Chris Kraus Revels in Art's Failure
The level of dedication required to see all nine films in her solo exhibition feels both deserved and important, since her films have largely been critically and commercially overlooked.
Film
That Summer Offers a More Human Look at the Women of Grey Gardens
As a "prequel" look at the Beales, That Summer makes for a fascinating contrast between the icons they have been turned into and the people they were before then.
Art
Intellectual Rigor and Emotional Intensity in NYU’s MFA Thesis Show
In their two-part thesis show, NYU's studio art MFA students showcase works that are formally precise and affecting.
Books
A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land
A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.
Art
Abstracting Maps to Question Our Relationships to Territory
In her large-scale drawings on sheets of vellum, the late artist Wopo Holup rendered geographic features with little or no contextual information, forcing viewers to reimagine how they envision landscapes.
Books
A Cartoonist's Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide
In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.
Books
A Poet's Minecraft Romanticism
References to shadows, ghosts, and other “gothic” images in Nadia de Vries's debut poetry collection can be read as representing relationships experienced online.