Reviews

Art

The Queer Feminist Agenda of Wilder Alison’s Abstract Wool Paintings

Since 2014, Alison has been visually dissecting Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body, which theorizes the split subjectivity women experience in language, an inherently patriarchal structure.

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A More Expansive Understanding of What It Means to Be Human

N.I.H., short for No Humans Involved, was an acronym used by the LAPD to refer to “young Black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner-city ghettos.”

Film

Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Ode to the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s

Stoner jokes, unexpected pop culture references, and an unlikely love story jangle against each other like charms on a bracelet.

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Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition

The autumn holiday of Sukkot continues to offer solace and community for new generations.

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Catherine Murphy's Observational Paintings Find the Uncanny in the Ordinary

There is nothing extraordinary about Murphy’s subjects and yet there is something inexplicably disturbing about her paintings and drawings.

Art

Geometry in a State of Collapse

Westfall stays true to his love of planar geometry, while finding ways to undermine all traces of predictability and stability.

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The Great Painter of London's Mayhem

Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top.

Film

C’mon C’mon and Mike Mills’s Vision of Masculine Vulnerability

In the films of Mike Mills, sensitive male characters reckon with who they are when who they are doesn’t seem to measure up.

Art

Inside Luis Jiménez’s American Southwest

Born to an immigrant family in El Paso, Texas, Luis Jiménez grew up in a world dominated by cowboys, cactus, and rattlesnakes, all of which appeared in his art.

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Rosalind Fox Solomon Captures the Humanity of Everyday Lives

In a way, Solomon's photo series The Forgotten harks back to a time when viewers believed that pictures told it all.

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The Spiritual and Erotic Role of Touch in Early Modern Art

In the early modern era, divine and erotic passions were not as polar as they may seem to us today.

Art

Step Into the Tender World of a Hollywood Cameraman

A history of the Golden Age of Hollywood from the perspective of someone who worked behind the scenes.