Art
With Mother Tongue, Camille Henrot Calls for Change
Henrot demonstrates the need to look at the beginning of our very existence to address social and gender inequalities.
Reviews
Art
A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
Art
Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
Art
Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
Books
Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field's poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
Art
Facing Catastrophe With Calm
Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.
Art
The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases
In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female.
Film
Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era.
Books
A Spellbinding Approach to Film Criticism
Erika Balsom’s latest book advocates for the possibilities of film criticism — a splitting open of countless pathways that reveal and deepen but never exhaust.
Film
A 700-Year-Old Poem Becomes an Existential Modern Fantasy Film
The Green Knight adapts a Middle English chivalric romance of King Arthur’s court as a somber, allegorical adventure.
Art
Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?
Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems.
Art
Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective
A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.