Art
We Are Also the Darkness After the Big Explosion
Nolan Oswald sees the pre- and postcolonial worlds as contemporaneous and interlocking.
Reviews
Art
Prettiness Is Political for Marie Laurencin
The artist has a point: Why is aesthetic pleasure often relegated to the sidelines of art? Why paint rotting fish when you can paint pretty femmes?
Art
The Wobbly Humanity of Cy Twombly
His works are distinctly earthly endeavors, showcasing the human hand in all its striving.
Art
Covering Up the Present in a Ghost Forest
Artist Serena Chang helps us see that in the act of remembering we’re often uncovering more than our own past.
Film
At Sundance, Films Tackled Sex, Love, Gender, and the Law
Whether it’s catfishing clueless rich guys, catching sex predators on YouTube, or assisting a woman in conceiving a child, questions of legality often have little to do with morality.
Art
After More Than 20 Years, Kate Hargrave Lets Her Paintings Leave the Nest
The artist's new exhibition, her first since graduating from art school in the early aughts, reveals her deep love of art history.
Art
Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics
A mini-retrospective of the feminist collective raises the question: What can be learned from this work that applies to today, and is this an effective method of making change?
Art
The Biting Satire of Eleanor Antin's Photography
Antin deconstructs both the self and the image as fraught in her staged photographs, and the results are less a punchline than a biting satire.
Art
Etel Adnan Captured the Light of Many Suns
An artist and poet who traversed multiple cultures, Adnan’s creations are alive with both multiplicity and instability.
Book Review
Relational Art in the Time of Tech Oligarchy
In a convulsing world with dwindling digital spaces for connection, can Relational Art offer lessons on building community and meaning?
Book Review
Scheming Dealers, Auction House Collusion, Pub Gossip, Oh My!
A new book spills the tea on the 20th-century London art scene.
Art
Not All Superheroes Wear Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks
This one-room exhibition is a good reminder of how this anonymous group of artists changed how we saw the art world.