Art
An Eclectic Assortment of Collages, Cut from Context and Pasted Together
Though the exhibition is a little bit all over the map, there are some real gems to be found here.
Review
Art
Jason Rhoades’s Outdated and Unchecked Art
Jason Rhoades's work can feel besides the point in today’s context — what might have seemed provocative 10 or 20 years ago now comes off as just loud and obnoxious.
Art
Photographs that Aestheticize Human Suffering
The people in Alex Majoli's strobe-lit images are treated as metaphors instead of themselves.
Books
Banned Horror Comics Rise from the Dead
All of your pre-Code goods are here: blood and guns and tentacles and stranglings and hell demons.
Art
The Stories of Asian American Activism in 1970s LA
The Chinese American Museum’s exhibition Roots uses books, posters, films, and music to examine the politicization of Asian Americans.
Art
Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.
Art
From Bananas to Bills, an Artist Peels Back the Layers of the Global Economy
Adriana Martínez, who has organized a multi-faceted collective in Bogotá, focuses on the geopolitical implications of resource distribution in her art.
Art
Grappling with Racism Past and Present in Segregated Cleveland
Exhibitions by Imani Roach, Soda_Jerk, and Anthony Warnick at SPACES gallery explore American racial prejudice across different periods of time.
Film
Revisiting an Antiquated Chris Marker Film About Technology
French director and artist Chris Marker’s 1997 film Level Five, screening this weekend at Metrograph, is a hilariously antiquated portrayal of the internet.
Art
The Strange Eroticism of Fishermen Caressing Dying Fish
Jonathas de Andrade's short film "O Peixe" mimics the style of anthropological documentaries to capture a made-up fishing custom in northeast Brazil.
Art
Envisioning Democratic Design at a French Biennial
A visit to the 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne offers an important reminder that we're surrounded by designs created to encourage some behaviors and obstruct others.
Art
The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
One of the themes of this year's Whitney Biennial appears to be violence, and not every artist has the ability to transform it into a successful work of art.