Music
Genuine Alternatives: The War on Drugs, Fever Ray, Julien Baker, Moses Sumney
Four new albums go from a bland, booming pastiche of rock noises to questioning notions of coupledom and the possibility of love.
Review
Art
The Gritty Poetry of Elizabeth Murray’s Paintings
Murray was having fun while making art, which is practically a sin, even now.
Art
Mark Bradford's Gettysburg Address
Bradford's installation at the Hirshhorn Museum takes as its subject the ways we think, and ultimately don't think, about history.
Art
Architectonic Collage in Two and Three Dimensions
Sharon Lawless’s visual dynamics are so vigorous you can almost hear them rattle, bang, churn and chug.
Art
An Artist’s Light-Filled Tribute to J.M.W. Turner
In Ellen Harvey’s Nostalgia, the spiritual and the secular converge into a beatific, nature-based sublime.
Books
In New Photo Books, a Strong Sense of Place
Three new photography books explore a sweep of places and events from Cuba to the studio floor.
Art
Art Among the Ruins
Daniel John Gadd is Elizabeth Murray’s spiritual heir, with a difference.
Film
Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time
In Kambui Olujimi’s short film Where Does the Time Go..., water is an apt analogy for the concept of time.
Books
Portraits from One of the Last Traveling Sideshows in the United States
For Tickets, photographer Hunter Barnes went on the road with the World of Wonders, one of the last traveling sideshows in the United States.
Art
In Vietnam, an Exhibition Reveals How Friendship Nourishes Artists
In Vietnam, networks of artist friends have built thriving communities of discourse and collaboration outside official structures.
Performance
An Ethereal Performance Unravels Like a Pop-Up Book on Stage
In A Billion Nights on Earth, a father and son go in search of a stuffed animal, traveling through multiple parallel worlds that are magically portrayed on stage.
Art
LA's Queer Chicano Artist Networks, from the 1960s to the '90s
Axis Mundo at the MOCA Pacific Design Center explores how queer Chicano/a artists created a world in Los Angeles from the late 1960s to the early '90s that has been largely unknown.