Art
Deconstructing the Masculinity of Hercules
Artist Kyle Staver’s portrayal of the mythic hero feels balanced, as if to say: sure, the 12 labors are absurd, but isn’t all human endeavor?
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Film
Kelly Reichardt Probes What Keeps Artists from Doing Work
Her recent film Showing Up features Michelle Williams as a sculptor who’s constantly driven to distraction.
Art
Mary Beth Edelson Celebrated the Goddess Within
Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would.
Art
A Meditation on Biotech's Cycles of Healing and Harm
Sharona Franklin's artwork is a celebration and commemoration of what is gained and lost with scientific advances that result in biohazardous waste.
Art
Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder
An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains.
Art
Stories That Need to Be Told
Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.
Art
Kojo Marfo’s Portraits Depict the Cracks in Polite Society
The artist’s style blends aesthetic and cultural elements from Ghana, London, and New York’s graffiti scenes.
Art
Queering the Archive, Tracing One’s History
The artists showcased in Archival Intimacies examine the colonial trauma’s impact on Asian Americans and search for ways to overcome it.
Film
They Tried to Make a Sexy Movie About the Eiffel Tower Engineer
Eiffel inadvertently paints its protagonist not as a great man worthy of scrutiny or praise, but as the Elon Musk of his day.
Art
Who Discovered Eva Hesse?
A new exhibition focuses on Hesse's works on paper, and the way they demonstrate the role of drawing in the famed sculptor's process.
Film
Ruben Östlund Satirizes the Lives of the Mega-Rich in Triangle of Sadness
Now playing the Cannes Film Festival, the new film from the director of The Square embarks on a luxury cruise that goes to hell.
Art
Anabel Juárez’s Castles of Wonderment
By enshrining her memories into sculptural form, Juárez celebrates her emotional pilgrimage through the growing pains of childhood to adulthood.