Art
Christian Nyampeta Transforms the Guggenheim Into a Anti-Colonial Night School
Though exceptionally accessible, Nyampeta’s exhibition occasionally strikes as too safe, particularly given the context of its installation.
Reviews
Art
An Exhibition Trembles With Black Spiritualities
Otherwise/Revival traces the contours of Black spiritual thought from Louisiana plantations to Azusa Street to our present moment.
Film
Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be
Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings.
Art
The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself.
Art
Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion
Armstrong's paintings explore the role of Black athletes as agents of social change even as white fans push back.
Art
Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?
Books
Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism
Tarn's meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
Art
Spilled Milk and Other Acts of Protest Visualize the Politics of Food Production
Inspired by the farmers’ protests Rafael Pérez Evans witnessed as a child in Spain, the works in Handful draw attention to the deliberate wedges driven between producer and consumer.
Film
A Trite Dramatization of the Oslo Peace Accords
An adaptation of the Tony-winning play, Oslo's apolitical take on the Israel-Palestine conflict is of little use to anyone.
Art
Lingering in the Crossroads Between the Human and the Divine
In her US debut, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro charts the boundless potential of the spiritual in-between.
Art
Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power”
A collaboration between Carriage Trade and Rectangle, Hearts and Minds analyzes the deceptive repackaging of Western imperialism.
Art
Navigating Home, the Way Children Might See It
Stuck at home as we have been, Busy Work at Home invites us to rediscover our sense of wonder.