Art
The Joyous Kitsch and Lingering Simmer of Nick Cave's Art
With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.
Reviews
Art
Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance
Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race.
Art
The Seductive Music of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives.
Art
The Hidden Poetry of Everyday Life
More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent.
Art
Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee's Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.
Books
“Inside the Seed, There Is a Kingdom”
Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a "real ask" of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope.
Art
Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
Books
Queer Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Under the Shadow of Church
Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies.
Art
Dreaming With Homer on an Idyllic French Island
Inspired by the journey made by the epic hero Homer’s Odyssey, a show at Villa Carmignac combines myth with contemporary issues.
Film
Documentary on Women's Freedom of Movement, or Lack Thereof
Courtney Stephens's documentary on women's travels from the 1920s to '50s presents not just personal glimpses into daily life a century ago but also documents of colonialism.
Art
Eroticism Beyond the Flesh
Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations.
Art
Jordan Casteel Won't Rest on Her Laurels
I was curious to see Casteel's first exhibition since her New Museum show. I was not disappointed.