Art
Artists Channel the Collaborative Ethos of New York's Lower East Side
A nod to the arts and culture anti-establishment nonprofit, A Gathering of the Tribes, Housing gallery’s latest exhibition emphasizes the interdisciplinary.
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Film
The “Magic Eye” of a Camera Captures Rural Life Under Quarantine
Made in the early days of the pandemic, Alice Rohrwacher’s short Four Roads watches her neighbors adjust to new domestic routines.
Art
The Anti-capitalist Candor of Alice Neel
Neel’s approach defied the conventions of both schlocky social realism and traditional portraiture.
Art
For All the Queer Habibis Out There
Curated by the Earl of Bushwick, Queer-y-ing the Arab focuses on the bedroom and private realm.
Books
The Tender, Loving Side of the Romans
Hérica Valladares explores the softer side of an ancient people famed for brutality.
Art
“The Bomb” Reimagines Discussions Around Nuclear Weapons
Filmmakers Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser call into question the very notions of “control” or “safety” when it comes to nuclear devices.
Art
Deborah Remington’s Singular Place in Art
By employing a slow, deliberate process in which control is paramount, Remington shaped her passage in time.
Art
Photographs That Bring the Past Into the Present
By constructing a highly detailed world based on historical events, Jasper de Biejer gives himself permission to ponder the past.
Art
Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt
Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future."
Art
Bisa Butler’s Worlds in Cut Cloth
Birds and airplanes soar, horses gallop, purples meet yellows, cerulean blues tango with magenta in geometric patterns, foliate designs crash into damask.
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Richard Mosse's Photos Exoticize Disaster
Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.
Books
A Female Vision of Sci-Fi
Izumi Suzuki introduced a different vision of femininity, one that departed from the stereotypes so abundant in the work of male writers.