Art
A “Both Sides” Approach to Orientalism
An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.
Reviews
Art
A “Both Sides” Approach to Orientalism
An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.
Art
Hunter Reynolds and Dean Sameshima’s Memorials to Queer Loss
A two-person, intergenerational display represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history.
Art
Hunter Reynolds and Dean Sameshima’s Memorials to Queer Loss
A two-person, intergenerational display represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history.
Art
Theaster Gates’s House Museum Gone Wild
When Clouds Roll Away is an immersive viewing experience dedicated to the Johnson Publishing Company that prioritizes imaginative reuse over context.
Art
The Never-Ending Cycle of Fear and Desire
Gary Simmons’s art suggests that rather than make progress our culture more often makes elaborate circles over and over again on the ice until the music stops.
Art
Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories
More context could have resulted in greater connections between viewers and the tantalizing glimpses of profound and difficult human experiences in Peters’s art.
Art
Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative experiences, showing how food connects people not only to their roots, but also to each another.
Art
Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.
Art
Holly Wright Challenges Our Sense of Vanity
At the Fralin Museum of Art, photographer Holly Wright reduces her poet laureate husband to a mouthpiece, and asks her subjects to think upon their own deaths.
Film
The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey
Homer’s Odysseus is complicated and playful — a man who has suffered, and is changed. Pasolini’s Odysseus squints, and occasionally flexes.
Art
Artists Find Energy Justice in Grassroots Acts
Energies at the Swiss Institute brings an archival and contemporary lens to questions of energy justice through a sharply curated artist cohort.