Art
Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
Reviews
Art
Yikui (Coy) Gu’s Tour of the US
There is nothing subtle about Gu’s work: it is in your face because the racism he encounters is always there.
Art
Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
Art
A Flawed Retrospective for a Surrealist Rebel
There is so much information handed to us in the exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy that we risk forgetting what we might think if we came fresh to a painting.
Art
Alex Caldiero, Outsider and Naysayer
Caldiero’s language experiments are rooted in the land and anchored in his body, at the junction between his brain and his larynx.
Books
Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity
Emily Segal's novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York's creative community.
Film
A '70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.
Film
A First-Person Interrogation of a Family's Guilt-Ridden Past
A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax's documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.
Art
Michael Richards’s Visionary Sculptures Mourn Dreams Deferred
A sense of poetic justice prevails throughout the artist’s first museum retrospective at MOCA North Miami.
Art
With Astonishing Tapestries, Erin M. Riley Claims Space for Healing
Riley’s work positions front and center everyday images of women’s lived experiences, unapologetically centering traumas often swept out of sight.
Art
These Are the People Who Built LA’s New Chinatown
Like all histories, LA Chinatown’s story is one that is fundamentally about people.
Books
Joel Meyerowitz’s Wild Flowers Is a Reminder That the World Is Still Blooming
In its expanded new edition, Meyerowitz’s photo book makes incidental details the leading characters.