Art
Edvard Munch’s Little-Known, Highly Personal Photography
Munch's photographs exhibit an unfinished playfulness with technical manipulation and subject matter that is not as readily seen in his more well-known work.
Review
Art
A New Contemporary Art Museum in South Africa Aims to Represent the Continent and Its Diaspora
Intended to represent Africa and its diasporas, the inaugural exhibition of the permanent collection attempts to give shape to the plurality of African identities and visual languages.
Art
Using Postwar Americana to Reveal Our Toxic Political Past
In the chaos of the Trump presidency, Howard Halle's work reminds us that a toxic political atmosphere is nothing new, and that art can help us weather it.
Art
Immersed in the Playful, Communal World of a Bodega
Tschabalala Self reflects on the vibrant environment of bodegas, shining focus on who owns and frequents them.
Art
A Landscape Made Up of Black Folks
Derrick Adams shows how the nature of an urban environment, like New York City, is found in its inhabitants.
Art
Turning a Clothesline into a Powerful Feminist Statement
Artist Mónica Mayer's multifaceted El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project uses a symbol of domesticity to generate dialogue and support taking ownership of feminist issues and experiences.
Art
The Unsung Portraits of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
The show at the Frick Collection foregrounds the artist's inventive portraits, which are not as well known as his religious paintings.
Books
The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and '30s
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
Art
From the Functional to Found, an Artist Couple’s Experiments in Clay
Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.
Books
Andy Warhol's Whimsical Drawings Before He Went Pop
A new book collects Warhol's early hand-drawn illustrations and accompanying texts, reproduced faithfully and filled with wit and whimsy.
Books
How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Film
Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.