Art
The Colonial Legacy of a Globe-Trotting Team of Artists and Scientists
An exhibition at The Drawing Center explores the controversial history of a group of researchers that recorded the nature around them.
Review
Film
John Berger and Alain Tanner’s Films About Life After Political Failure
John Berger's attraction to the primacy of storytelling led him to the Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, who together collaborated on a series of three films, now showing at Metrograph.
Art
Pakistani Women Reclaim Identity Through Pointed and Playful Performances
An exhibition at apexart shows how 12 Pakistani artists are exploring performance and self-portraiture to define their identities on their terms.
Film
A Korean Punk Band’s Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk’s documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the college punk duo Bamseom Pirates and the arrest of the band’s producer after posting controversial tweets.
Art
A VR Documentary on Animal Surveillance Tracks a Grizzly’s Life
Bear 71 VR is an interactive documentary that uses trail camera footage and animal tracking to follow the life of one grizzly in Banff National Park.
Books
The Rainbow of Japan’s LGBTQ Identity, Captured in Photos
Queer people in Japan are in the spotlight in the latest installment of a book series that documents LGBTQ lives around the world.
Art
The Novelty and Excess of American Design During the Jazz Age
Through over 400 objects, the Cooper Hewitt's dynamic Jazz Age exhibition highlights 1920s American design.
Music
Fifty Years of Wandering in Sgt. Pepper Land
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is better than a merely great rock album — it’s a glorious exemplar of goofy fluffery.
Art
The Legendary Betty Parsons Meets the Not-So-Legendary Betty Parsons
Her reputation as a dealer has conveniently overshadowed her identity as an artist.
Art
Robert Grosvenor Doesn’t Take Us for a Ride
Grosvenor’s radically altered vintage cars are not about fulfilling fantasies; they are boxes with openings and wheels that carry you from point A to point B.
Art
Musings on Maine and Mackerel
Now based in Norwich, Vermont, with a seasonal studio on the Blue Hill peninsula, Emlen has painted her share of Maine motifs, taking on some of the most iconic landscapes, such as Monhegan Island and the Mount Desert Island region.
Art
Ronny Quevedo's Field of Play
At the Queens Museum, the artist has applied colored pieces of vinyl tape to the atrium floor in the shapes of athletic field boundary lines.