Art
Sounds From the Depths of a Texas Oil Basin
While never quite at the forefront of The Permian Recordings, a sense of doom and crisis permeates the space, even if only by geological reference.
Reviews
Film
A Darkly Captivating Portrait of Toxic Obsession
A long history of checkered reviews of the film L’Homme blessé betrays a fundamental struggle with tragedy in a queer context.
Art
The Singular Vision of Morris Hirshfield
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered highlights the need for more research on twentieth-century self-taught American artists, who were marginalized by restrictive art historical narratives.
Art
Chloë Bass Disarms With Beauty
The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.
Art
How Great Was Lucian Freud, Really?
Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?
Art
Barbie's Pink World Order
Entering World of Barbie felt like stepping through Oz, but the Oz that is Barbie: a James Turrell Ganzfeld-like diffusion of hyper-femme magenta pink.
Art
Doses of Relief in Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Drawings of Pain
His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.
Art
On the Limits of Healing
Can anyone truly heal from a traumatic experience?
Art
Pussy Riot Rocks Reykjavík
Coursing through Velvet Terrorism is graphic evidence of how these spirited women have been constantly attacked by the patriarchy.
Art
Siobhan McBride Unsettles the Familiar
What makes Siobhan McBride's work as a whole interesting is her interest in the ambiguity, suggestibility, and elusiveness of everyday life.
Art
The Wondrously Defiant Art of Contemporary Ceramics
Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery demonstrates the conceptual and technical innovation of contemporary ceramics with riotously joyful art.
Art
Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Instinct
Her art demonstrates a grasp of animal nature beyond picturesque figures in a landscape or sentimental stand-ins for human emotion.