Art
A Show on Orphism Can’t Seem to Figure Out What That Is
The problem with Harmony and Dissonance is that its narrative is neither harmonious nor dissonant, but rather fragmented and vague.
Review
Film
60 Years Before Wicked, a Movie Musical That Made Your Eyes Sing
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most brain-quiveringly beautiful films ever to flood a screen.
Film
The Beautiful Infinity of Tetris
A new documentary-game includes an interactive timeline, interviews, and of course, playable versions of the game.
Book Review
A Comic Artist’s Antidote to the How-To Guide
Adrian Tomine’s new book answers questions from his readers, a gesture of acknowledgment and even gratitude delivered from a safe distance.
Art
Troy Lamarr Chew II Depicts Social Invisibility
The artist’s transparent portraits reveal the larger forces of culture and society that define and marginalize his Brown and Black subjects.
Art
Sophie Calle Is Both Exhibitionist and Voyeur
For a half-century, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices, dry humor, and unapologetic impropriety.
Art
Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana
She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire.
Art
The Savage Beauty That Emerges From Loss
Malaysian artist Anne Samat’s grand installations resemble traditional woven, brightly colored altars but a closer look reveals toy soldiers, rake heads, and plastic keychains.
Art
Rindon Johnson’s Odyssey Across the Pacific
At the Rockbund Museum, the artist explores the fluidity of Black identity, curious about what it might make of one of our planet's most varied geographies.
Film
A Dazzling Light in Dance History
When dancer Loïe Fuller’s spinning garment reflected the stage lights, it took on a life of its own, beguiling those in New York, Berlin, and Paris.
Art
Words That Leave a Ragged Edge
While Scrawlspace is a deeply inquisitive and well-researched exhibition, the premises are in some instances cliché and a bit contradictory.
Art
Kyle Larson’s Anxious Dreamscapes
His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination.