Art
How Much Syrup Can a Doughnut Leak?
Emily Eveleth’s paintings of doughnuts are lurid, funny, unsettling, sexy, off-putting, luscious, puffy, bawdy, and excessive.
Reviews
Art
Ron Gorchov’s Art of the Here and Now
Gorchov is an artist whose best pieces are purely aesthetic and totally present, here and now.
Art
The Essential Nature of John Zurier’s Art
With The Future of Ice, John Zurier manages to reduce each painting to what is essential only, yet he maintains an incredible specificity in each.
Art
Art on the Threshold of Visual Perception
Agustín Fernández’s visual innuendos seduce the viewer into lingering on the threshold of visual perception.
Art
The Sun Also Shines In Florida
BOCA RATON, FL — One of the first things I see as I walk into the gargantuan Schmidt Center Gallery on the campus of Florida Atlantic University is a wall assemblage that in the aggregate, from a distance, looks like the profile of a fish gaping its mouth to swallow some
Film
The Brutality of Innocence in Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher
Lynne Ramsay’s 1999 debut film is arguably one of the masterpieces of 20th-century depictions of childhood poverty.
Art
Danielle Dean Wades Through Two Hollow Utopias
Every utopia is a social experiment, the artist suggests in this commission for the Performa performance art biennial, and we're ultimately the guinea pigs.
Art
Tschabalala Self Dramatizes the Struggle to See and Be Seen
Sounding Board does not do what I expect from contemporary performance with its staged acting and scripted plot and dialogue, but it still succeeds.
Film
Who’s Getting Rich Off of Kids Getting Killed?
Todd Chandler’s documentary Bulletproof looks at the many people monetizing the societal rot of school shootings.
Art
The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
Art
Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art
The Jewish Museum delves into "degenerate" art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition.
Art
Model, Rebel, and Painter, Suzanne Valadon Defied the Odds
Her female nudes were extraordinary for the time because she portrayed female sexual desire. Her subjects defied conventional ideals of femininity.