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.
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Art
The Empathy and Solidarity of Laura Aguilar's Unbroken Gaze
The photographer portrays her subjects with a tenderness that makes them seem like friends, and with the attention of someone who really sees them.
Art
Nicole Eisenman’s Portraits of Angry White Men
We have seen these men before; they are oafish and hapless, yet dangerous. They are Philip Guston’s Klansmen, back from the dead to ruin us.
Art
An Artist Finds the Roots of Language in Natural Forms
Over the past 40 years Michele Oka Doner has been developing her own "personal hieroglyphics" shaped out of clay to illustrate how language comes from nature.
Books
A Comic Draws Connections Between Mass Surveillance and Drone Warfare
In the true spirit of journalism, Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil team up to lay bare a complex story on their new graphic novel's pages.
Art
Artists Who Unlocked the Modernist Grid
A gallery show that turns the form of the grid inside out, shedding more light on this iconic 20th-century favorite.
Art
How Tarsila do Amaral Reinvented Brazilian Identity with Modern Art
Tarsila unearthed her roots to understand them better, and showed them off to the world. No Brazilian artist before her had probed the country's past in such a personal way.
Art
The Deathless Aponte and Black Freedom
The Spanish empire beheaded Aponte in 1812 because of his dangerously egalitarian ideas, and in his possession authorities found what they described as a “book of paintings.”
Art
The Many Shades and Meanings of the Color Blue
An exhibition meditates on blue's various connotations and how it manifests in politics.
Art
An Indigenous Artist's Futuristic Vision of Traditional Transformation Masks
In Shawn Hunt: Transformation, the Heiltsuk artist expands traditional forms and experiments with new media and painting.
Books
The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
Books
A Dystopian Fairy Tale Reflects Challenges of the Present
Despite the serious environmental and political challenges presented in The Emissary, Yoko Tawada suggests that another path exists.