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Art

Listening to the Wisdom of Chinese Animal Idioms

Chinese Animal Idiom cards remind us that we can fly free, yes, and we should, but we eventually need somewhere to land.

Art

Thompson wanted to author a world where the struggle between chaos and order, structure and impulse, the rational and irrational is never settled.

Art

A new exhibition offers a sensitive and probing critique of what it is like to both view and occupy a contemporary female body.

Art

Nina Katchadourian’s Uncommon Denominator is one of the most unusual and engrossing shows that I’ve encountered in years.

Film

While on its surface the film follows selfless caregivers, dig a tad deeper and troubling aspects begin to bubble up.

Art

An unclassifiable artist and a deep reader, Jen Bervin has expanded the notion of what it is to be a poet in the 21st century.

Art

A new exhibition in Warsaw celebrates four postwar Polish artists on the margins of art history.

Art

Alejandro Zohn shaped public space in Guadalajara, Mexico, but beyond its borders, few know about him.

Art

In The Listening Takes, Elisabeth Subrin centers actress Maria Schneider’s refusal to discuss a non-consensual sex scene in Last Tango in Paris.

Art

A new exhibition presents new works by the Argentinian artist alongside drawings from his days as a gay rights activist in the 1980s.

In a vividly illustrated artist’s book, Cammock breaks through the fourth wall of the page to present the city as a composition of energies.

Art

Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation.