Film
Zodiac Killer Project Is a Parody of the True Crime Genre
The documentary is an incisive critique of how cliché-bound the genre has become, encouraging viewers to ask more from it.
Reviews
Art
The Material Is the Message in States of Earth
A group exhibition in Istanbul asks whether art can help us find ways of forging more equitable, less exploitative ways of coexisting with the environment.
Art
Zoë Zimmerman’s Photography Is a Search for Meaning
By creating still life photographs from the everyday items of a historic Taos family, Zimmerman inserts herself and viewers into the personal history of others.
Art
Community Care Through Art in Chinatown
In an already trying year, the art in From Chinatown, With Love is a reminder that community will help us get through the tremendous challenges.
Book Review
Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right
The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.
Art
Step Into Sonia Boyce’s Sensory World
Shimmering with color and sound, her exhibition Feeling Her Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario feels both expansive and enveloping.
Art
WTF Is Planar Painting?
It is refreshing to see a group show that hews to its curatorial statement, and includes both old friends and unexpected twists.
Book Review
Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking
The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.
Art
13 Artists Perform Selfhood in the Age of Alienation
From Alex Ito’s shifting mirrors to Laura Anderson Barbata’s oceanic drag, each piece in this show weaves together themes of identity, protection, and transformation.
Art
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
Art
The Divided Being of Forrest Bess
He was one of the first American artists to grapple with the many parts of an individual’s identity, and seek to unify them.
Book Review
New Graphic Novel Tackles Thorny Questions Around Animal Cruelty
Dog Days examines the complexity of human-canine relationships in light of intergenerational tensions in South Korean society.