Film
A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse
Telling the story of Eva Hesse's life and work presents one major challenge: as a narrative arc, it is necessarily truncated.
Review
Art
A Show About Delacroix’s Influence Is Sorely Missing His Work
LONDON — Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art suffers from too few of Delacroix’s works and far too much of the “modern art.”
Art
New Portal Art Fair Fails to Make the Most of a Lower Manhattan Landmark
Most tourists who wander into the rotunda of Federal Hall on Wall Street likely won't be there for this week's Portal Art Fair, but the three floors of mixed-media art may cause them to linger longer in the 19th-century space.
Art
Holograms, Robots, and 3D-Printed Masks at a New Art Center in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Highlighting six HCMC-based contemporary artists and featuring several large works all incorporating new media, this exhibit would feel at home in any global arts city, from NYC to Beijing.
Art
An App Turns the Failures of Image Recognition into Whimsical Text
When I was a little girl, I always wondered what my Teddy Ruxpin mechanical bear would say if there wasn't a cassette tape commanding his interactions with me.
Art
Experimenting with Sound in an Artist-Built Pool
There's a large pool taking up most of the floor space at Recess.
Performance
'Antigone' Meets 1970s Radical Detroit in a Work of Immersive Theater
DETROIT — The oft-repeated thesis statement of this interactive theater performance is: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination; all other wars are subsumed in it.”
Art
A Dance of Constant Movement, Propelled by Light
MINNEAPOLIS — There are some performers who are so focused, so attentive, so magnetic, that they could just stand on stage, not even moving, and still keep an audience rapt.
Film
From an Oakland Muralist to a Failing Goat Farm, Artful Highlights from Boston's Indie Film Festival
BOSTON — The Independent Film Festival of Boston started out earnestly and enthusiastically in 2003, blowing the minds of locals and filmmakers by being a polished, world-class (and yet 100% volunteer-run) operation from the get-go.
Art
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Manhattan’s Psycho Summer
New York City is creeping towards a psycho kind of summer.
Art
Uncanny Films About the Traumas of War
Omer Fast’s unsettling videos about the trauma of combat linger in one’s mind.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Edward St. Aubyn’s ‘The Patrick Melrose Novels’ (Continued)
When I left off last week I was halfway through this quartet of low-life-in-the-midst-of-high-life novels, dissatisfied with the series’ prelude, Never Mind, but encouraged by the relative superiority of book two, Bad News.