Art
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
Reviews
Art
In Knausgaard’s Essays on Art, No Thought Goes Unexamined
In the author’s latest book "In the Land of the Cyclops," I want to see what Knausgaard sees, even when I’m overwhelmed by it or disagree.
Film
When a Con Artist Tried to Sell the "Car of the Future"
The HBO true crime miniseries The Lady and the Dale argues that it's just as important to highlight trans outlaws in addition to role models.
Film
Minari Isn’t Really About the American Dream. It’s About US Empire.
In Lee Isaac Chung’s drama, immigration should be considered through the lens of displacement and diaspora, with its characters exhibiting resilience rather than assimilation.
Art
For Sky Hopinka, Wandering Is Both a Mode of Moving and Making
Centers of Somewhere proposes an understanding of Indigeneity that is hybrid, fluctuating, and always in transit.
Art
Samara Golden’s Memento Mori Give Shape to Grief
When experienced as a portrait of the artist’s psyche alone, Upstairs at Steve’s is a piercing representation of individual grief.
Art
At Rome’s Quadriennale, Out With the Old and In With Historical Interventions
Fuori proposes a reinterpretation of Italian visual arts from the 1960s to the present day, affording greater prominence to women and young artists.
Film
El Planeta, Amalia Ulman’s Transportive “Comedy About Eviction”
Ulman’s feature debut chronicles a mother-daughter pair in post-recession Spain with a restrained style and hints of amusing deception.
Art
The Contours of Black American Life, According to Gordon Parks
Viewing Parks’s photographs in 2021 offers stark, graceful reminders of the ongoing fight for civil rights.
Film
Alvin Ailey, the Icon and Enigma
Much as the documentary Ailey delights and inspires, it also evokes a sense of wistfulness by privileging the choreographer’s public persona at the expense of Alvin the man.
Art
Lush Yet Crisp: Beatriz Milhazes’s Lively Abstractions
Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.
Art
Three Artists Illustrate the Expressive Potential of Drawing
In Telling Stories, Robyn O’Neil, Amy Cutler, and Annie Pootoogook showcase the continued utility of this ancient art form to stunning effect.