Art
Quiet Paintings at a Time of Sensory Overload
Where Kim Mikyung’s process suggests an obsessive burrowing into the self, Kim Hyung-dae casts his gaze upward and outward into the sky.
Reviews
Art
Mark Thomas Gibson’s Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere
If Thomas Nast, who is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” has an heir, it is Gibson, who goes one step further and elevates caricature and commentary into art.
Art
Kahori Kamiya Transmutes Grief Into Play
Through artworks that encourage viewers to explore varied vantages, Kamiya conveys her accrued wisdom and experiences without the weight of their pain.
Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Needs a Cutthroat Judge
In episode three, the artists created works about the pandemic and bonded with each other, which is cute but doesn’t really make for good TV.
Film
Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso Depicts a Bygone Oakland
Smith’s 1998 film exudes the DIY charm of a low-budget, first-time feature while keenly depicting the complexities of both race- and gender-related inequalities.
Art
What Does Peter Doig Have to Do With the Impressionists?
A new exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery pits Doig against artists like Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Does it work?
Film
What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world.
Art
Celebrating America's Forgotten Black Cowboys
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy strives to correct the mainstream Western narrative of life on the range.
Art
Things Go Wayward at the Hayward
The doomster title of Extinction Beckons at London’s Hayward Gallery had really got me going. Then, almost immediately, things started to go wrong.
Art
Indigenous Artists Tell the Story of Hawaiian Surfing
He‘e Nalu: The Art and Legacy of Hawaiian Surfing centers the culture of Kānaka Maoli, the Indigenous people of Hawaii.
Art
Simone Forti Finds the Dancer Within Us
Forti started as a painter so it’s only natural that she would transform other artists and cultural workers into dancers.
Film
Achingly Intimate Doc About Ukrainian Orphans Insists on Hope
A House Made of Splinters bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks.