Film
A Portrait of Philosopher Donna Haraway as an Impassioned Storyteller
A documentary about the canonic thinker, shot mostly in her home office, seems straightforward at first, then jellyfish start shimmering across the screen.
Review
Art
A New Contemporary Art Museum in Virginia Leads with Politics
Declaration, the first show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth Institute, foregrounds work dealing with social justice, belonging, and the erosion of time.
Art
Robert Colescott’s Frank Snapshots of Racism and Misogyny in the US
Colescott reached the heights of a master painter, becoming one of the first prominent artists to embed black bodies and social critique into the art historical canon.
Art
The Opulent and Cosmopolitan Legacy of Iran's Qajar Dynasty
An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens gathers 19th-century Persian artworks, design objects, fashion, photos, and more, many of them on view outside Tehran for the first time.
Books
Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings
For a new map published by Blue Crow Media, Chicago-based architect Iker Gil has selected over 50 examples of concrete and Brutalist buildings across the city and its suburbs to highlight.
Art
Uncanny Renderings of Art History’s Famous Self-Portraits
Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
Art
Over Two Millennia of Music Play Out Across the Metropolitan Museum's New Instrument Galleries
The newly reopened galleries combine disparate instruments the world over, grouping them by time period and type, rather than dividing them into the cultures by which they were created.
Music
Wendy's Serves Up a Beefy Mixtape
The fast food chain's mixtape We Beefin? explores an uncharted outreach strategy.
Art
Matthew Wong’s Hallucinatory Pilgrimages
Wong proceeds mark by mark without knowing in advance what will happen or where he will go.
Art
Richard Hull’s Hall of Mirrors
Hull’s “stolen portraits” are funny, weird, seductive, robust, mysterious, saucy, and nearly impossible to decipher.
Books
Poetry from the Picket Line
Two poets, veterans of university unionization campaigns, chart the growing crisis of the new intellectual working class
Art
From the Green Market to the Gallery Wall
Karin Sander’s Kitchen Pieces draw your attention to the rhythmic ridges of an acorn squash, the bumpy peel of an orange, and the spiky surface of a yellow dragon fruit.