Art
Luisa Rabbia’s Tiny Marks and Big Mysteries
With her series Love-Birth-Death, Rabbia addresses some of humanity’s most enduring, universal enigmas.
Review
Film
50 Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Whether This Film Is Fact or Fiction
In his 1968 film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, William Greaves turned cinéma verité on itself, never making it clear whether the story was in fact fiction, nonfiction, improvisation, or some combination of the above.
Art
The Permanence of Toyin Ojih Odutola's Invented World
In Ojih Odutola's conception of the world, its inhabitants never fell — not from divine grace, not from political autonomy, and certainly not from self-regard.
Performance
The Somber Fate of a Manuscript Illuminator
In Written on Skin, currently playing at Opera Philadelphia, an illuminated manuscript artist gets involved with his patron's wife.
Art
37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography
In a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination, the Nebraska exhibition Monarchs feels vitally relevant.
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.
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.