Film
That Summer Offers a More Human Look at the Women of Grey Gardens
As a "prequel" look at the Beales, That Summer makes for a fascinating contrast between the icons they have been turned into and the people they were before then.
Review
Art
Intellectual Rigor and Emotional Intensity in NYU’s MFA Thesis Show
In their two-part thesis show, NYU's studio art MFA students showcase works that are formally precise and affecting.
Books
A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land
A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.
Art
Abstracting Maps to Question Our Relationships to Territory
In her large-scale drawings on sheets of vellum, the late artist Wopo Holup rendered geographic features with little or no contextual information, forcing viewers to reimagine how they envision landscapes.
Books
A Cartoonist's Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide
In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.
Books
A Poet's Minecraft Romanticism
References to shadows, ghosts, and other “gothic” images in Nadia de Vries's debut poetry collection can be read as representing relationships experienced online.
Music
The All-Encompassing Cardi B
Invasion of Privacy sounds like another conventional rap album, before revealing Cardi B’s maniacal determination to be all things to everybody.
Art
Nadia Haji Omar's Multicultural Cartography
Omar brings together possibilities of allusion that the mainstream art establishment has yet to truly recognize.
Art
Daniel Hesidence's Views of an Imaginary Landscape
Hesidence masterfully balances information and aesthetic pleasure to produce a joy that should not be taken lightly.
Art
Art and the Ascent of the Third Reich
By returning to the details of life embedded in bodies, objects, and the earth, the artists featured in Before the Fall at Neue Galerie conveyed the hope that the world might reassemble itself.
Art
Judy Linn's Rigorous Geometry
Linn has a knack for noticing the odd and unexpected in everyday life, and seems to have her camera with her at all times.
Film
Stream the Only Film Ever Shot in Cinemiracle, a Wondrous Widescreen Format from the 1950s
Windjammer, a movie following a half-year voyage across the Atlantic, used a brand-new extreme widescreen camera system that hoped to become a new industry standard.