Art
How Books Get Banned
Xiaoze Xie’s humble books and photographs are quiet survivors that still hide in the shadows even when they are bathed in museum light.
Review
Art
Finding Kinship with Witchcraft in the Fight Against Patriarchy
An exhibition revisits the life of the last European woman to be executed for witchcraft.
Art
Designs of Wonderfully Weird Women Capture the Mood of the Moment
No one ever said being a woman was easy. But Lucy Cahill also makes it look empowering and fun.
Art
The Dadaists' Fevered Dreams of Africa
Dada Africa is an exhibition that exhumes the collision between the Dadaists’ preconceived notions of Africa and actual African cultural artifacts.
Film
This Year's Oscar-Nominated Shorts Are Slam Dunks
From a film on basketball legend Kobe Bryant to an adaptation of Roald Dahl poems, this is the first crop of nominees in many years without a single dud.
Film
Brazil's Extreme Social Tensions on Film
The 21st edition of the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes film festival reflected Brazil's volatile social and political climate, while avoiding the conventions of poverty porn.
Performance
“Welcome to a World Without Trump!”: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Latest Performance
Gómez-Peña staged “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist” at LACE and spoke about his transgressive brand of performance art that takes aim at borders.
Art
Visions of Taiwan and the Powers that Shaped It
As Shake shows us, the island state's geography and political history have a lot in common.
Art
The Remarkable Early and Late Work of a Lifelong Abstract Expressionist
By staying the Abstract Expressionist course, Michael Goldberg produced a body of work imbued with remarkable aesthetic and emotional power.
Art
A Film Probes the Legacy of BUTT Magazine
At the beginning of the 2000s, Dutch publishers Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom started to edit BUTT with the aim to tackle the then mainstream gay aesthetic of perfectly groomed men with something dirtier, frank, and authentic.
Books
Hilarious and Heartbreaking Objects Left in the Wake of Failed Relationships
Just in time for Valentine's Day. We're not bitter, we promise.
Art
A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce
The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.