Books
What Defines a Queer Space?
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories records how generations of queer communities have persisted and created familial oases around the world.
Reviews
Art
Can Western Architecture Ever Be Truly Decolonial?
The Project of Independence at MoMA probes the limits of modernist construction in South Asia.
Film
A Meta Remake-of-a-Remake Muses on the State of Cinema
Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good.
Art
L.A. Memo Paints a Dynamic Picture of Chicana/o Art
It’s not a “greatest hits” show, or a comprehensive survey; rather, it is a starting point to reconsider an expansive vision of Chicana/o art.
Art
Alison Hall's Hypnotic Paintings Invite Slow Looking
Hall makes no attempt to entice the viewer to begin looking and to look again, letting her methodical craft compel viewers to reflect upon their experience.
Art
Lynda Benglis Basks in the Light of Her Art
In Benglis's latest works, the forces of gravity that defined her seminal poured latex and polyurethane pieces are traded for luminous bronzes.
Art
Stanley Rosen’s Embrace of Vulnerability
If art is regarded traditionally as an impermeable form that resists the effects of time, Rosen acknowledges and accepts their inevitable triumph.
Art
What Does Spiritual Diversity Mean in Contemporary Art?
In From Confucius to Christ, artists from around the world touch on notions of wisdom and insecurity in Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity.
Art
A Little Corner of Heaven in East Los Angeles
Guadalupe Rosales’s East of the River is an exhibition of memory, chance, and grief, all encased in nostalgia.
Film
Enter the World of “Sonic Catering” in Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland’s latest fetish-fixated film imagines a community of artists who turn food and cooking into soundscapes.
Art
A Show About the Great Migration Strikes a Timely Chord
At a moment when the future of this country seems precarious and uncertain, A Movement in Every Direction demonstrates that Black Americans have been among this nation’s most stalwart heroes.
Art
Searching for Healing in Postwar Art
An exhibition at the Barbican in London asks: How do you make sense of war's senseless destruction and loss of human life?