Books
Redefining Modern Art in the Muslim World
Though at times a puzzling read, artist Rasheed Araeen’s latest book critiques Western scholarship that ignores Islam’s influence on modern art.
Review
Film
This Is Not How You Make a Doc About AI
Two Sundance films ask all the wrong questions about artificial intelligence technology and its attendant issues.
Art
The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.
Books
Rose Marasco Captures the Poetry of Domestic Objects
Rose Marasco: At Home surveys the photographer's experimentations with everyday objects like shoes, cutlery, and a vegetable peeler.
Art
Shepard Fairey’s Subversive Civic Discourse
Facing the Giant serves as a powerful demonstration of Shepard Fairey’s creative evolution and his significance as a cultural instigator.
Art
When Feminism Ruled CalArts
The Feminist Art Program at CalArts produced some of the most well-known second-wave feminist artists and a diverse third-wave movement.
Books
Can We Free Ourselves From Algorithms?
In Filterworld, Kyle Chayka proposes that the algorithmically driven, primarily digital nature of how we consume culture has rendered culture homogenous.
Art
Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.
Books
How Blue Paper Revolutionized the Art of Drawing
Drawing on Blue provides a glimpse into the genesis of the tinted paper as a new vehicle for expression in European art.
Art
Two Views of a Family Breakfast
Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are.
Art
Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
Art
The Maverick Art of Richard Artschwager
Although the artist’s work had affinities with Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, it did not fit into these categories or any others.