Film
Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories
Fritz Böhm’s debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
Review
Art
When Paintings Are Stitched, Unstitched, Twisted, and Knotted
Julia Bland combines weaving with paint to make works that don’t quite fit comfortably in a single category.
Art
Kay Rosen’s Writing on the Wall
Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.
Art
Jay DeFeo and the Anarchic Spirit of Surrealism
For DeFeo, Surrealism was not a technique, but a state of seeing and experiencing everyday life.
Art
The Dazzling Sweep of the Hunter Color School
Radiant Energy is the first exhibition to feature paintings by Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, key members of this influential group.
Art
Artificial Childhoods, Fading Innocence, and Black Panthers at the Photography Show
Portraiture and history dominates this year's The Photography Show, and there are many stand out works by Osamu Yokonami, Julie Blackmon, Ryan Vizzions, and others.
Art
A Portrait of Tennessee Williams as a Playwright and a Person
Seeing the playwright's process, the countless drafts, and the lukewarm reception of his early plays is a reminder that the struggle to make art can be overcome — and that we should, through the hardship, carry on.
Art
An Artist's Troll Den Embodies the Messy Spectacle of the Internet
Trolls in the 21st-century exert their presence and identity in digital spaces, but Molly Colleen O'Connell makes them physical. Don't feed them.
Film
A Film Shows a Poignant Vision of Black Life in Hale County, Alabama
In his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross captures the lives of that county's black residents in beautiful and fragmentary complexity.
Film
A Depraved Classic of Adult Anime Returns to the Big Screen
Originally released in the US in 1993 to much puzzlement and shock, a rare 35mm print of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend will screen at Nitehawk.
Art
Seeing the Lives of Immigrants in Objects and Images of Home
Testimony, an exhibition about the lives of Bay Area immigrants, chooses to focus less on trauma and displacement than on the everyday meanings of home.
Art
Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.