Books
The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois for Young Readers
The New Brownies' Book promises to provide an experience any child can enjoy, but one designed especially for those of color.
Review
Art
Marie Laurencin’s Portraits of Sapphic Pleasure
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier,” said painter Marie Laurencin.
Film
Doc Examining Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking Has Its Own Problems
Subject’s premise is novel and has potential, but for all the film’s discussion of ethics, it has its own failings.
Art
Peter B. Jones Sculpts Truth to Power
The Onondaga artist has a propensity for cultural criticism — especially on the issues affecting Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples, past and present.
Art
Lutz Bacher’s Elliptical Cosmologies
Her posthumous exhibition Aye! makes space for gaps in understanding and sonic vibrations to cultivate cosmic wonder.
Art
In SoCal, All Freeways Lead to Tovaangar
"It is our responsibility — whether we are Native or not — to educate ourselves about whose land we are on,” writes artist Cara Romero.
Art
A Luna Moth Goes to the Moon
Virginia L. Montgomery initiates connections between humans and their natural surroundings and envisions a hopeful future when Anthropocene hierarchies are overturned.
Art
Chance Encounters With Tania Pérez Córdova’s Art
Poetic and subtle, her work invites viewers to contemplate each material as it changes, or stays the same, over time.
Art
How R.B. Kitaj Kept It All Together
In Kitaj’s work, the whole is an extravagant layering of several images into one.
Books
Renny Pritikin’s Adventures in Bay Area Art
The curator, writer, and teacher’s memoir winds its way through his four-decade career, arriving, geographically and conceptually, back where he started.
Comics
A Conflicted Cartoonist Ponders Roy Lichtenstein
A new documentary asks whether the Pop Art icon appropriated the work of comic artists. If so, who’s truly to blame?
Film
The Ghostly Afterlives of Cinema
Pictures of Ghosts is concerned not just with how cinema makes memory tangible, but also how we historically have interacted with it.