Art
Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial
Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.
Reviews
Film
In Tragic Jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" Fights Back
Yulene Olaizola's film tries to subvert the tropes of colonialist art about the Central American wilderness.
Art
A Kurdish Artist’s Creative Resistance From Behind Bars
“Politics, war and oppression are a part of my life,” Fatoş İrwen explained of her current solo show, Exceptional Times.
Art
A Playful, but Critical, Tribute to Los Angeles
Umar Rashid creates an alternate timeline that shows Black and Indigenous people defeating colonizers.
Art
Electric Images: Ming Smith’s Transcendent Photography
Evidence, the inaugural show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, emphasizes Smith’s track record as a photographer who both loves and riffs on the language of her medium.
Books
Alison Bechdel's New Book Offers Some Secrets to “Superhuman Strength”
In her supremely good graphic memoir, Bechdel considers her life-in-workouts, offering some surprising nuggets of wisdom on our endless quests for self-transformation.
Books
A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory
Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.
Art
Matthew Wong’s Indelible Impressions
Just three years after he first devoted himself to art, Wong assembled an abstract vocabulary to create an entire world that is parallel to ours.
Art
The Gallery Dealer as Tightrope Walker
Rather than identifying with a style or brand, Klaus Kertess was remarkably independent in his choices, and was not averse to risks.
Art
Rosemary Mayer’s Art of the Unseen
For Mayer, the passage of time is imbued with a sense of melancholy, of something already lost to the past.
Art
What to Make of Nero?
An exhibition takes on the notorious Roman emperor, from gleaming marble to roaring flames.
Books
Nathaniel Mackey's Epic Poem
Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.