Art
Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
Review
Art
Joe Overstreet, Painter as Aesthetic Nomad
Overstreet keeps his references to his African-American heritage and Native American influences oblique.
Art
Picture Yourself at the Museum of Selfies
Selfies — which have been critiqued as symbols of narcissism and celebrated as examples of defiant self-representation — are now receiving the museum treatment.
Film
The Strange and Artful Worlds of A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay's sci-fi blockbuster follows its characters from a verdant world right out of a Hudson River School painting to a glowing space worthy of James Turrell.
Art
Pushing the Limits of NYC's Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial
The inaugural biennial questions how we define the city margins by presenting the work of artists who call the eastern edge of New York City’s largest borough home.
Art
A Korean American Artist Who Grappled with Losing Her Voice and Roots
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's personal experience of migration would inform the prodigious output of her art and writing in the 1970s and early '80s.
Performance
Mozart Hits the Coney Island Boardwalk in Remix of Così fan tutte
The Met's new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s.
Art
A Show of Luminous Paintings, Overshadowed by Crowded Curation
Tara Sabharwal can make objects float in the neither-here-nor-there ether.
Books
A New Compendium of Bizarre and Banal Soviet Stuff
A new book highlights candy wrappers, cigarette packs, radios, vacuums, cars, and other items from the collection of the Moscow Design Museum.
Books
A Graphic Novel that Basks in the Aura of Film
Herman by Trade reads just like a storyboard for a film — perfectly fitting for a tale of a humble street cleaner caught up in the frustrating process of open auditions for a movie.
Film
Style Transcends Story in Winter Brothers, a Film Set in a Limestone Mine
Hlynur Pálmason’s movie injects some fresh blood into the sometimes moribund state of cinema.
Books
How David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Has Influenced Contemporary Art
The authors of a book about Lynch's influence on art try too hard to crack the mystery of his film Mulholland Drive.