Film
A Chance to Revisit Barbara Loden’s Only Feature Film, Considered a Feminist Masterpiece
While Loden initially went unnoticed, today she is seen as an unsung auteur whose promise was tragically cut short by her death from breast cancer in 1980.
Review
Art
A Festival of North African Contemporary Art During an Age of Anxiety
The 5th edition of Jaou Tunis at the Kamel Lazaar Foundation brings together the works of various North African artists in a beautiful and oftentimes political display.
Art
How to Talk About Whiteness
The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to “make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable,” to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.
Film
How Women Filmmakers Were Bending Social Norms Since the Birth of Cinema
Women were fighting since the very beginning of celluloid for a role that allowed them to express their creativity.
Art
The Czech Painter Often Credited with Inventing Pure Abstract Art
Looking at František Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.
Art
Looking Back on the Golden Age of Fashion Illustration with Jim Howard
A showcase of Howard's work from the 1960s through the '80s illustrates major shifts in consumer behavior and records an art career that no longer exists today.
Books
Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles
Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the '60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.
Music
Alternative Rock Gets a Reboot
Trading in activism, self-awareness, and intimacy, four alternative guitar-rock albums manage to revitalize familiar forms.
Art
Artists Update Bygone Myths
Even as Pollock was eliminating mythology in his work, younger artists born in the 1920s were finding ways to make it fresh.
Art
Upending Conventions with Figurative Painting
The works of painters Angela Dufresne and Louis Fratino are far more radical than anything some conceptual artists have recently received attention for.
Art
The Art of a Fired Cartoonist
What if we interpret Rob Rogers’s wild art cartoons as if they were conventional subjects for art writing?
Art
Harnessing the Revelatory Power of Masks
For almost 20 years, Gauri Gill has documented the lives of nomads, peasants, tribals, migrants, and other marginalized communities of rural India.