Art
In Neelon Crawford’s “Moving Paintings,” the Natural and Manmade Face Off
MoMA’s exhibition Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker is a retrospective of his experimental work documenting machinery, travels in South America, and more.
Reviews
Art
Genieve Figgis Paints High Society as a Spectacle of Humor and Horror
Figgis's musings on bourgeois decadence feel particularly canny in a time of widespread inequality.
Art
The Frenzied Cacophony of Adam Pendleton
For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.
Art
The Double Consciousness of Being a Chinese Woman Living in America
Fei Li knows that achieving rapprochement between the world views and customs of China and America is unlikely.
Art
What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success
Sentimentality would creep into the artist's late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.
Art
Jason Gubbiotti's Sculptural Paintings Manifest the Claustrophobia of Lockdown
The work in The Travel Section points to the isolation of a lockdown, but it’s not without moments of release.
Art
An Under-Recognized Geometric Abstractionist Who Took a Different Path
Houston artist HJ Bott conveys a restless, open, and experimental temperament that is in dialogue with his better-known contemporaries.
Art
Dread Scott Celebrates a Long-forgotten Rebellion as a Moment of Resilience
Merging past and present Scott magnifies what has been reduced in American history to a plaque on a highway.
Books
Scottish History Echoes in the Writings of Two North American Poets
Poets Shara McCallum and Karen Solie channel Scotland through historical fiction and the deep-seated malaise of modernity.
Film
Shot in Rome During Lockdown, Zeros and Ones is a Different Pandemic Thriller
Featuring Ethan Hawke in a dual role as twin brothers on opposite sides of a brewing war, Abel Ferrara’s new film evokes the paranoia of modern information overload.
Art
At Tate Modern, an Installation Blurs the Line Between Technology and Biology
Anicka Yi's In Love with the World is an attempt to break down the distinctions we make between plants, animals, micro-organisms, and technology.
Art
Pippa Garner’s Household Inventions Reimagine the World
Garner appeared on the talk show circuit in the early 1980s as an eccentric pop culture figure who was never fully understood.