Film
Social Bonds May Save Our Lives
Join or Die is part of a cresting wave of cultural production circling around the intertwined issues of loneliness, divisiveness, and our political right turn.
Review
Art
In Los Angeles, Queer Sci-Fi Is a Universe Unto Itself
A visually enthralling show lays bare the links between science fiction and the occult, realms where being begins from a place of transgression.
Art
Chicago’s History of Radical Art Pedagogy
Two concurrent shows focused on the radical social and political possibilities of progressive art education in Chicago ask: Who is art really for?
Art
An Indigenous Modernist Artist Finally Gets Her Due
An exhibition at The Met celebrates the work of self-taught artist Mary Sully, who neither exhibited nor profited from her work during her lifetime.
Art
Brenda Goodman Paints the Pain of Being Human
Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.
Art
The Gilded and Flamboyant Life of Sascha Brastoff
In a time when queerness was taboo, the artist built a career on style, camp, and influential connections.
Art
Incarcerated Artists Get a Stage for Artistic Expression
Co-curated by Jeremy Deller and John Costi, No Comment is an exhibition of artworks created in criminal justice settings, entries to the 2024 annual Koestler award.
Book Review
A Photographer’s Unflinching Hymn to Her Aging Body
Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her nonagenarian life story.
Film
How Did a Pro-Democracy Activist Become a Trump Supporter?
Over seven years, director Nanfu Wang documented Cuban activist Rosa María Payá’s fight for a democratic Cuba — and her journey to endorsing the MAGA movement.
Art
Happy Pictures From the Apocalypse
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum is guilty of a concerning lack of urgency.
Art
How Bob Thompson Created an Art Community
Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative.
Art
The Quiet Sublime of Steve McQueen
The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.