Art
An Imagined Feminist Art School in the Amazon Jungle
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.
Review
Film
How and Why Art Became "Degenerate" in Nazi Germany
Narrated in Italian by actor Toni Servillo and directed by Claudio Poli, the film somewhat drowsily recounts the madness of the Nazi’s quest to first sanitize, and then steal the art of Europe.
Art
Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
Art
An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.
Art
The Devotional Act of Touching a Brush to Canvas
Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.
Art
Breaking Down Boundaries Through Poetry and Photography
In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco's poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler's photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.
Art
Tomás Saraceno's Sculptures Touch the Sky
Strapped into a harness beneath Saraceno’s inflated sculpture, we are carried aloft, peaceful and ecstatic, merging with the air.
Art
The Spirit of Painting in an Altered World
Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
Art
The Enduring Influence of Ikat Fabric, from Oscar de la Renta to Contemporary Design
Ikat patterns have become enormously popular in both fashion and interior design. But most consumers seem to be ignorant of the textile’s cultural origins.
Art
Watching a 3D Printer Reinterpret African Tribal Symbols
Matthew Angelo Harrison has designed and built a machine that takes his ongoing work with abstraction in a different direction.
Art
How the Evil "Other" Was Conceptually Constructed Over Centuries
Artists Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel’s transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.
Art
Filming Native American Performance Through a Decolonized Lens
In her three-channel video "Mother Drum," Dara Friedman avoids many of the problematic patterns non-Native artists often fall into when making art about Native American communities.