Books
Photographs as Passageways to the Profound
Rich in sensations and ideas, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling uses unexpected juxtapositions of text and image to offer both antidotes to the mundane and passageways to the profound.
Reviews
Art
Mexican Modernism Was More Than Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism feeds into the repeated use of Kahlo and Rivera’s work, and the mythology of their romantic relationship, as shorthand for an entire era.
Art
An Artist Welcomes You With the Tools of Play Therapy
Mimi Park's artwork is about the DIY creation and sustenance of an open-ended, experimental ecosystem, a non-hierarchical space of aimless exploratory interactions — in short, play.
Film
An AI-Generated Andy Warhol Confides In Us
The extensive Netflix docuseries, based on Warhol’s memoirs, won’t fully satisfy either casual viewers or fans of the Pop icon.
Art
The Pleasures of Slow Looking
Jule Korneffel is not after denial in her paintings but rather affirmation, even in these chaotic, seesawing times.
Art
Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions
By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.
Art
The Elusive Residue of Memory in Hazy Prints
“These prints are perhaps my surrender to Shadow,” writes New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic.
Art
Fragmentation as a Queer Artistic Strategy
What becomes of the body in the work of artists who challenge cisheteronormative frameworks?
Art
Alone in the Dying of the Light
One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.
Art
Redefining Anthropology as a Site of Creativity
Artist Maya Stovall questions the altruistic intentions of anthropology while also attempting to redefine the discipline as a site of creativity and community empowerment.
Art
Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.
Art
Elizabeth Glaessner's Wonderfully Weird Menagerie
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner's Phantom Tail.