Books
Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America's Most Heavily Guarded Prison
Debi Cornwall offers a vivid and unsettling glimpse of the infamous US detention center in her book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay.
Review
Art
David Wojnarowicz’s Native American Inspiration and the “Killing Machine Called America”
Though Wojnarowicz, like most Americans, viewed Indians through a romanticized lens, his interest in the shared death space of those marked as expendable reveals the possibility for collaboration beyond life.
Performance
Re-staging the First English Autobiography, Written by a Woman 500 Years Ago
The revival of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, based on The Book of Margery Kemp, tells the story of a fiercely independent medieval woman and her contradictory path to sainthood.
Art
Revisiting a Czech Artist's Collages of Human Cruelty, 50 Years After the Prague Spring
While Grimace of the Century at Prague's National Gallery is not dedicated to Kolář's collage series Diary 1968 alone, its constant presence is such that all the works on display cannot but assume a political valence.
Art
The Political Art that Shaped Cold War Hungary
An exhibition at the Wende Museum explores the art and culture of socialist-era Hungary and offers a chance to consider relationships beteween art and politics during the Cold War.
Art
The Social Consciousness of Sid Grossman, a Photographer of the People
Sid Grossman met his subjects where they were, documenting them reverentially and purposefully.
Art
Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy
Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery unites a diverse assembly of artists tracing the outline of affection from the 1980s to present day.
Art
Queering the Body Using Encasements of Color and Light
Photographer Matthew Morrocco dons a morphsuit, and pays homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in one segment of an ongoing series about the body.
Music
On the Margins of Country Music
We’re witnessing a transitional moment for the country music genre that opens up space for weirdness and experimentation.
Art
Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
Art
The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
Art
Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.