Art
Gilbert & George, Full of Themselves Again
How should we take all this buffoonery? In part, it looks like satire. But what exactly are they poking fun at?
Reviews
Art
Levan Mindiashvili's Childhood Memories
Mindiashvili's installations strike a teasing balance between disclosure and concealment.
Art
“These Are the Women I Want to Be”: María Berrío’s Visions of Displacement
Meticulously collaged, Berrío’s canvases impart both exuberance and grief.
Film
In Without Gorky, the Artist’s Family Opens Up About Their Pain
In this moving documentary by Cosima Spender, there are lots of unanswered questions but you can’t help but be moved by the rawness.
Art
Off the Record Confronts Our Understanding of Objectivity
A forceful rejection of neutrality, the Guggenheim exhibition unearths the deeply biased natures of media and government systems.
Art
Laying Down Roots: Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves's Radical, Botanical Future
Greaves emphasizes the possibilities of planting seeds in the ruins of violent structures.
Art
Zi Yi Wang’s Full-Body Critiques of Consumerism
A thing like you and me conjures the experience of being trapped in the darkness of manufactured happiness.
Art
The Absurdly Poignant Poems of Sun Ra
Sun Ra’s stanzas are riddles against passive reading.
Art
Kenneth Tam Creates a New Frame for Asian American Masculinity
Tam’s work always comes back to the body, emphasizing what lays beyond our daily performances.
Art
Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
Books
The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn't truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
Art
A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.