Books
The Shadowy Past of San Francisco
Mimi Plumb's photos of 1980s and ’90s San Francisco look at the dissonance between an expanding metropolis and its surrounding environment.
Reviews
Art
Kei Ito Traces Tragedy and Mourning
Ito's rubbings and multimedia works are traces of a global tragedy still imprinted in the memories of Americans more than two decades later.
Books
Who Holds the Power in Art?
If art is power, as Farah Nayeri's Takedown consistently shows, then how can galleries and museums successfully negotiate relationships of power?
Books
N.V. Parekh and the Rise of Studio Photography in East Africa
Isolde Brielmaier’s book I Am Sparkling illustrates how Parekh’s studio became a place for sitters to assert their agency in a changing world.
Art
Two Sparse Brooklyn Exhibitions Probe the Elemental Forces of Life
Things have their own power and agency in the artist’s installation and humans are part of a complex world of life forms and materials.
Books
Amusing Stories About the Muses of Art
Ruth Millington tells the story of the women (and nine men) who have been portrayed in various paintings considered “masterpieces.”
Art
The Many Faces of Ukrainian Photography Today
In Ukrainian Photography Today the now and then come into intimate contact to reveal a story about one’s roots and uprootedness.
Art
Reclining Men Reading Radical Books
Artist Pachi Muruchu merges his radical beliefs and resistance to colonialism with a complex sense of color and the moods it can conjure and inflect.
Art
Sally Gabori's Cartography of Aboriginal Displacement
During her last decade of life Gabori created abstract, large-scale paintings that map her emotional memory of her ancestral home.
Art
Why Are You Drawing Faces Like That?
With deep-set eyes and sealed lips, an ovular, narrow face is pervasive in James Gilbert’s work.
Film
Claire Denis's New Film Is Stronger on Steam Than Story
Just as sex with a revolutionary does not make one revolutionary, a penchant for setting films in developing countries does not make Denis a resident expert.
Art
A Miniature View of Modernism's Masters
Though smaller in size than the artists’ usual works, the works in Modernism in Miniature gain their heft from their big-name creators.