Art
A Feminist Take on Medieval Statuary
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee's ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.
Reviews
Art
Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor
Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.
Art
Painting and Time's Winged Chariot
Paint's materiality has a capacity to release meaning into the work, to underscore our vulnerable bodily presence in the world and time.
Books
Enough with the Ableist Worship of Frida Kahlo
Emily Rapp Black’s new book cuts through self-serving interpretations of disabled bodies like Kahlo’s, which have long emphasized the comfort or pleasure of others.
Art
Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.
Film
An Eight-Hour Film Captures the Rhythms of Farming Life in Rural Japan
The Works and Days is a quiet epic, using its length to capture the rhythms of rural life and its desecration by urbanization better than any conventional movie could.
Film
Hong Sang-soo’s Latest Film Probes How People Portray Themselves
The Woman Who Ran has a laid-back vibe and relaxingly repetitious structure, but that conceals a complex character study.
Film
Wes Anderson’s Latest Conjures a Confectionary Vision of France
The infamously elaborate director’s new film takes us to Ennui-Sur-Blasé, where employees of a US newspaper get into whimsical capers.
Art
Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO
Through her encounters with the spirit Lacamo, Peavy developed a cosmology based on 12,000-year cycles of evolution.
Art
Louise Bourgeois’s Long Relationship With Psychoanalysis
For all of its emphasis on unraveling, the most intriguing works in Freud’s Daughter are often the most abstruse ones.
Art
Victoria Dugger Materializes the Frictions of Accessible Space
For Dugger, who is disabled, bodies are mutable and prone to rupture, yet they remain expansive, even cosmic.
Performance
A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief
What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.