Art
Looking for America at Art Basel Miami Beach
If you know where to look, you will find heartbreakingly potent art at the fair this year.
Review
Art
How Contemporary Artists Are Embracing the Ambiguities of Gender
What’s incredibly refreshing and exciting about Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon is that it’s a queer art show that specifically seeks a space beyond a taxonomic obsession.
Art
Monumental Domestic Scenes Address Race and History in Detroit
Jason Yates's interdisciplinary project deploys kitsch and abstraction to grapple with the social legacies and the lived present of Detroit.
Art
An Interactive Story Follows Two Migrants on Their Journeys to Europe
Migration Trail is a 10-day interactive story that unfolds in real time as it follows two migrants on their journey to Europe.
Art
Learning About Tactics of Resistance Through Southeast Asian Art
After Darkness reveals the multiple ways that artists from Southeast Asia have renegotiated painful histories.
Art
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Majestic Portraits of Communities
Nisenbaum portrays her subjects with majesty and importance, upending class and status structures.
Art
Tracing IKEA Chairs to Their Modernist Roots
The objects championed by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson look strikingly like items that today are very much a part of our everyday lives — including IKEA furniture.
Art
So Many Narratives, So Little Time In Act II of the Sharjah Biennial
Act II the final component of the Sharjah Biennial Tamawuj has the feeling of a magnifying glass being held up to the wide-ranging dialogues chief curator Christine Tohmé seeks out with curators, artists, performers, writers, and researchers.
Film
A Queer Love Story That's Gorgeous, If Not Groundbreaking
Is Call Me By Your Name’s queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?
Art
Works Whose Resonance Overcomes Its Everyday Setting
An exhibition at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is installed in an office space. But the fact that the artworks hold up and make me want to spend time with them speaks to their powers.
Performance
A Performance About Queerness Emulates a Soap Opera
With humor and intellectual curiosity, the Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf's Room for Cream uses the lens of soap operas to investigate contemporary queerness.
Art
Wander the Lost City of Teotihuacán in Minecraft
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.