Art
Can Finding Joy Be Defiant in 2020?
In his drawings embellished with blossoms, artist Ronald Vill invites us to perceive 2020 as an exercise in defiant jubilance.
Reviews
Art
The Luminous Blues of Ficre Ghebreyesus’s Painterly World
Foregrounding narratives of oceanic migration, Ghebreyesus’s paintings radiate power and serenity in vibrant shades of blue.
Film
Kick Off October With Korean Horror Movies
A classic of Korean cinema and an early Bong Joon-ho film are among our streaming picks for the first week of the spooky month.
Books
Women Concrete Poets Who Pushed Against the Limits of Language (and Patriarchy)
Focusing on 50 artist-writers often overshadowed by their male contemporaries, Women in Concrete Poetry breaks from more traditional histories, much like the innovative figures featured.
Books
Justine Kurland's Female Utopia
In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.
Art
Jan Harrison's Dream Animals
To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others.
Art
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?
Art
Rivane Neuenschwander's Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World
Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
Art
An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own
In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism.
Film
A Grand Adventure on Nature's Littlest Stage
The Paul Rudd-narrated documentary series Tiny World takes an up-close look at Earth's most diminutive denizens.
Film
A Daunting Survey of the Global Housing Crisis
The documentary Push follows a UN official as she investigates the financialization of housing.
Film
Fargo’s TV Adaptation Is a Folksy, Homespun Tale of Murder and Mayhem
The series has returned for a fourth season of pitch-black humor and quirky characters.