Books
Harry Smith’s Hidden Roadmap to the Heavens
He needed money to live, so that he could search New York City for paper airplanes.
Review
Art
Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.
Film
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.
Film
Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.
Art
Celia Álvarez Muñoz Unbinds the Artist Book
The artist’s work embodies a level of confrontation that makes me contemplate our choices to explore or ignore what’s right in front of our face.
Art
The Artist Who Made Miniatures Grand
Rosalba Carriera worked on a small scale, but she was emphatically not a modest artist.
Art
Ephraim Asili Suggests a Different Model of Remembrance
In his latest project, a three-channel film and accompanying archival documents ruminate on the interplay between historical value and familial intimacy.
Performance
Carlos Amorales’s Fragmented States Envisions a Hopeful Future
With this performance, Amorales reconciles the hopes and disappointments of generations past with our present reality.
Books
The Spellbinding Totality of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy’s Love
A new monograph hones in on the artist-couple’s collaboration.
Art
Tony Bechara Creates Chaos With Grids
Bechara’s grid paintings are dazzling, engaging, and unsettling, since they undermine any sense of stability that we associate with a grid.
Art
Through a Bent Glass, Darkly
At Z33, a group show of more than 50 artists across three chapters tells the story of our divisive present.
Books
The Glittery History of Drag in New York City
Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history.