Film
The Design Duo Behind Pink Floyd's Iconic Aesthetic
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) is a reasonably informative, if rather dry, look at a subject with much more potential for exploration.
Reviews
Art
Abstract Art Did Not Begin With Paul Cézanne
Odili Donald Odita challenges the long-held belief that abstract art is a purely Western tradition.
Art
What Just Above Midtown Meant for Black Artists
The long-gone art gallery afforded Black artists a space to create without having to consider the pressures of the commercial art market or the fickle nature of nonprofit art institutions.
Film
We’re Screwed, But It’s Okay
Rachel Lears’s new film To the End is optimistic, perhaps to a fault.
Art
Looking Beyond the "Brotherhood" of the Pre-Raphaelites
Concurrent shows at the Delaware Art Museum highlight overlooked aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art and tread beyond typical gender hierarchies.
Art
Historical Revisionism Gets Mischievous in Chicago
Two solo shows in Chicago are must-sees for anyone who cares about feminism and how it intersects with modernist architecture, urban planning, and design.
Books
The Extraordinary Life of Barbara Chase-Riboud
The pathbreaking artist recounts milestones in her life through letters she wrote to her mother.
Art
Girls, Gods, and Rabbits
Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds.
Art
Shirley Jaffe’s Outlier Beginnings
A show of early works by Jaffe challenges viewers to think about the road she pursued in her art, and what it means to go your own way.
Art
Lucio Fontana’s Third Dimension
Nothing was shaped or glazed by Fontana without his consideration of how light could interact, animate, or even mystify form.
Art
The Dirty South Comes to Denver
Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.
Art
Carolina Caycedo’s Spiritual Fieldwork
Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.