Film
A Documentary Traces How Prisoners Documented Nazi Concentration Camps
From Where They Stood examines the rare phenomenon of prisoners who were able to provide direct victim documentation of the Holocaust.
Reviews
Art
In Pursuit of Belonging
Mining the elusive nature of memory, Joeun Kim Aatchim reveals the urgent, universal desire to cling to the past despite its transience.
Art
Two Artists Brought Together by the Sublime Mysteries of Existence
Cory Feder and Diego Medina’s collaboration in Wonder Holy Ladder is an antidote to the ubiquitous transactional relationships of the 21st century.
Art
Listening to What Latinx Artists Have to Say
Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art at the Vincent Price Art Museum presents a history of Latinx sound practices steeped in resistance.
Art
Nicole Miller Bears Witness Through Sound
The engulfing vocal testimony of Miller's audio-visual art speaks to the threat of death faced by people of color in this country.
Film
New HBO Series Offers People the Chance to Rehearse Big Life Changes
Nathan Fielder’s new show deepens his weird, discomfiting, and hilarious investigation into the line between what’s fake and real.
History
Blowback Explores the Messy History of US Interventionism
The well-researched podcast has done deep dives into US attempts at regime change in Iraq and Cuba, with its new season tackling the Korean War.
Books
How Has Gandhi Influenced Artists?
Gandhi was an excellent mass communicator who created rich symbolic value through his persona, gestures, and actions — all of which translated into commanding visuals.
Art
Pope.L Invites Us to “Enter The Mess” When Things Fall Apart
Whether through expansion or confusion, Pope.L plays with the instability of time and shows how tapping into this instability can unlock creative shifts in thinking.
Art
Sean Scully's Abstract Paintings Have Stories to Tell
Minimalism sought to empty out narrative pictorial content. Scully's goal has been to put it back.
Art
Raphael Between Heaven and Earth
The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
Art
White Boys and Divine Animals Bound Cleverly Together
Zadie Xa’s quilted textiles and Hernan Bas’s paintings of adolescent men enjoy a surprising but generative dialogue at San Francisco's Jessica Silverman gallery.