Art
A Collective Portrait of Black Los Angeles, Told Through Artist Ben Caldwell
This exhibition about the multihyphenate filmmaker is as much about the place he chose to call home and all the people who pepper it with color.
Reviews
Art
What Does It Mean to “Collaborate” With Another Species?
The majority of the art in Mutual Aid: Art in Collaboration with Nature is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes.
Book Review
An American Artist’s Vignettes of Rural Italian Life
Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.
Art
The Monstrous Empathy of Amaryllis R. Flowers
In her art, Flowers thinks about monster mythology and autonomy as they relate to the all-too-human experience of feeling unwanted and out of place.
Art
Reckoning With the “Science” of Sexuality
Scientia Sexualis attempts a decolonial approach to the subjects of gender, sexuality, and representation in relation to the clinical gaze.
Art
Two Painters’ Not-Quite-Abstract Art
The pairing of Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz, both longtime practitioners of geometric abstraction, is a stroke of genius for their similarities and differences.
Art
The Bold and Innovative Aesthetics of Medieval Artists
Over 40 works dating from the 12th through the 16th century fill this compact, beautifully curated show.
Art
Gertrude Abercrombie’s American Surrealism
Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.
Art
Benny Andrews Painted the Textures of Life
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
Art
Men Undressing for Women and Other Contemporary Takes on the Old Masters
Sylvia Sleigh challenged the traditions of portraiture by letting those she adored be their glorious selves.
Art
Artists Find Power, Care, and Resistance in the Garden
A group exhibition at the Aldrich Museum frames gardens as a sites of nurture and control, tradition and innovation.
Film
Universal Language Brings Tim Hortons to Tehran
Centered on an Iranian community in a fictional Winnipeg-Tehran hybrid, the absurdist comedy is a joyous depiction of emphatically unalienated people.