Art
Linda Mussmann’s Art Is a Labor of Love
While Time & Space Limited expand the artistic quality of life in its community, Mussmann remains steadfast at the helm of this mighty mothership.
Reviews
Art
The Haunted Women of Else Hagen
In the mid-20th century, the Norwegian painter plumbed the tensions, envies, frustrations, and tender bonds among feminine subjects.
Art
The Interplay Between Art and Sports
An exhibition animates new scripts for both art-making and sport, positing their languages of rhythmic choreography as sites of possibility and reclamation.
Art
The Anti-Monuments of Torkwase Dyson
The artist’s multi-disciplinary practice challenges colonial and anti-Black art distinctions between representation and abstraction.
Art
7 NYC Shows and a Trove of Online Art to See Right Now
Kamari Carter’s political art, visionary Shaker art, and Esther Mahlangu's colorful geometries, along with many other in-person and online shows will beat your winter blues.
Art
Sylvia Plimack Mangold Turns Trompe L’oeil Inside Out
Rather than trying to fool us with her representational paintings or showing off her virtuosity in the realm of resemblance, everything is on the surface.
Art
The Crossword Grid’s Geometry of Memory
Cameron Granger pays homage to his grandmother’s rituals of puzzle-solving while rejecting the constrictive grids of urban planning.
Film
Pepe Imagines a Hippo’s Perspective on Life
The film's hippo protagonist demonstrates that stories about animal subjectivity can unveil many otherwise hidden absurdities of our society.
Book Review
Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.
Art
A Pop Art Vision of Glitter and Decay
Kathleen Ryan’s large, blingy sculptures of rotting fruit are both semaphores and sirens, warning of our cultural ruin while beckoning us to come closer.
Art
Artists Shine a Light on Chicago’s Complex Ecosystem
Given that the vast majority of the world’s lands have by now been modified by humans, urban gardens might be the best we can hope for.
Book Review
The Preposterous History of Propaganda Art
Propagandopolis, a globe-spanning selection of visual persuasions from the early 20th century to now, is a travelogue to disinformation’s past.