Art
Good Vibrations and Milford Graves’s Healing Harmonics
Graves spent nearly 40 years investigating the healing potential of music.
Reviews
Art
In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories
Adams’s weavings are the kind that demand to be stood directly in front of, for you to hunker down on your knees, or crane your neck at all angles.
Film
A Queer Love Story Blooms Across Borders
Based on a true story, I Carry You With Me captures the nuances of leaving and longing.
Art
Painting Abstractly in the Midst of Unending Crises
Alyse Rosner is grappling with the question of how to make an abstract painting reflect both the personal and collective.
Art
Where Painting Can Live
Jason Stopa's desire to infuse his paintings with joy mixes sophistication and innocence without privileging either one.
Art
Nona Faustine's Family Album
Faustine's depiction of household shared by three generations of Black women presents matriarchy as a source of power.
Art
Alix Le Méléder’s Rules of the Game
The French artist’s decision to stop painting in 2011 grew out of her work’s internal logic.
Art
Barbara Hepworth’s Monumental Elegance
The exhibition Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life is both an examination of some of the best of her artworks and a spasmodic account of her life.
Art
Sonya Clark Weaves the History of Black Hair Into Art
Grappling with the politics of American mythology, Clark constructs objects that are as critical as they are riveting and insightful.
Film
The Americanization of Hawai'i, Seen Through One Man's Life
Christopher Makoto Yogi’s beautiful, contemplative I Was a Simple Man merges the past and present of both one character and his environment.
Film
Ludi Captures How US Assimilationism Exhausts and Exploits
Set in Miami’s Little Haiti, Edson Jean’s feature debut follows a nurse on the verge of a breakdown.
Art
Artist Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies
Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men.