Art
Unearthing Centuries of Interdependence Between Humans and Plants
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World explores how humans have historically understood the plant world, and how we ought to reconsider it as we degrade the planet.
Review
Art
Whale Paintings Evoke the Giant Mammals' Suffering and Scarring
Juliette Dumas's large-scale paintings of whales' flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.
Art
The Remarkable and Polyglot Design Legacy of Ilonka Karasz
Ilonka Karasz’s designs span from the 1910s to the 1970s, across multiple media: textiles, industrial design, and illustration, including several New Yorker covers, all with a keen sense of the prevailing zeitgeist, and yet, I had never heard of her.
Film
A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse
Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life.
Art
Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta's paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
Art
A Trailblazer of Computer Drawing Gets Her Due
An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.
Art
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s Guide to the Americas
In Vásquez de la Horra’s cosmology, we encounter fantastical creatures on whatever journey we take, whether it is to a real place or an imagined future.
Art
The Political Resonance of Contemporary Sculpture
Sculpture at Luhring Augustine posits contemporary sculpture as a corrective to politically regressive monuments in the United States.
Art
When Photorealism Meets Delacroix
Robert Bechtle’s photorealist pictures of suburban California resist exoticism as much as Delacroix’s paintings of Algerian harems.
Art
Richard Aldrich's Elliptical Paths Through Language
Aldrich brings a rich sense of materiality to a practice founded on the gap between images and language.
Art
Paintings that Question the Promises of Postcolonial Democracy
Meleko Mokgosi questions democratic ideals in his paintings of contemporary life in Botswana.
Film
Visions of Joan of Arc as a Dancing, Singing, Head-Banging Kid
French director Bruno Dumont's latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc's childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint’s life.