Film
A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does
MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.
Reviews
Art
Multiple Realities of Abstract Art at the Southeast Queens Biennial
A poetic sense of materials united the artists of the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial in New York.
Art
Soft Scenes of a Rough Life of Labor
Daisuke Fukunaga depicts Japanese workers as tired but happy. Are they, really?
Art
Welcome to Your Place in the Multiverse
Jean Lowe’s work parodies our most banal behaviors by inviting us to consume images of our own consumption.
Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
Art
Unearthing Austin's Overlooked Chicano Art History
A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.
Art
“Do We Still Recognize Ourselves?”
In an age when everything is called into doubt, Squeak Carnwath’s concern with seeing carries a deep urgency.
Art
Reveling in the Ruins of the Past
In attempting to convey atrocities that confound language, artist Phyllida Barlow comes up against a paradox with no easy resolution.
Art
Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection
For her first museum exhibition, Grace Rosario Perkins invited four other artists to ponder the definition of data, centering questions about how it's collected, authenticated, documented, and distributed — and by whom.
Art
Dana Lok Beckons the Unknowable
Lok's paintings reveal seemingly straightforward objects and events to be strange, slippery, and utterly beguiling.
Art
Powerful Visions of Reclaimed Narratives by Indigenous Artists
The artists in Mesh collectively delve into connections to land and to community, pushing back against colonizing forces, and reclaiming their own narratives and power.
Art
A Korean-American Artist's Search for His Family's Past
Young Sun Han's art explores sometimes painful, sometimes revelatory aspects of his family’s narrative and Korean history more generally.