Art
Eric Fischl’s Privileged Bubble
Fischl finds a visual bond between the seclusion of the affluent white world and the pandemic’s enforced isolation.
Reviews
Books
Posters That Changed the World, From Anti-Slavery Campaigns to Vaccination Efforts
Colin Salter surveys the “world’s most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters.”
Film
Dash Snow and the Price of Being a “Rebel” Artist
The new documentary Moments Like This Never Last explores how Snow's bad boy performance became a trap for him.
Art
Tender, Yet Monumental Figures Crafted From the Tides
In Soles of My People, Khari Turner channels elements of Midwestern waterways into figures awash with global histories of triumph and struggle.
News
Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming
In this excerpt from his new book, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture, Anaïs Duplan probes the constraints and contradictions of Black masculinity.
Film
How Artificial Intelligence Becomes Racist
The documentary Coded Bias reveals how prejudices are written into the algorithms that run our world.
Film
An Unheralded Film About Girlhood Gets a Second Chance
Smooth Talk, the 1985 Laura Dern breakout, has gotten a restoration and re-release after being ignored in its day.
Film
A Documentary Portrait of Environmentalist Greta Thunberg
I Am Greta captures some sobering truths about the nature of contemporary activism.
Books
A New Book Awash With the Glories of Watercolor
Watercolor: A History features over 300 dazzling, full-color illustrations, all specially printed on Munken paper to capture the intensity and texture of the original works.
Art
The Little-known, Refreshingly Vulnerable Works of Clyfford Still’s Final Years
The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland offers a historical pivot by focusing on the last 20 years of the artist's life, revealing his most productive period and foregrounding work that is rarely discussed.
Art
The Met Museum Misses the Mark in Recounting Its Own Complicated History
Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.
Books
Updating a Pivotal Presentation of Craft
A heartfelt display, Objects USA: 2020 updates the 1969 project by building bridges of influence and inspiration across generations of artists.