Film
The Spectacular Power of Movies with Epic Runtimes
Two movies in this year's China Onscreen Biennial stand out, not just for their subject matter or prestige, but for their sheer breadth.
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Music
The Latin Invasion in Pop
Thanks to the growing popularity of Latin trap music, Latin pop is having a heyday in the United States.
Art
Jim Dine Breaks Out
Although Dine is considered a blue-chip artist (a rather ugly term, if you ask me), the New York art world has not been kind to him.
Art
Cyclops, Bananas, and the Art World’s Race Problem
How do persons of color get into the history of painting after it has excluded them?
Art
Relearning to Draw with Strips of Colored Tape
You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
Music
Yoko Ono Sings As If Our Lives Depended on It
With Warzone, the artist revisits some of her older anthems, whose themes are more timely than ever.
Art
Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted
In this exhibition contemporary artworks are paired with works that have been destroyed or lost to the annals of art history.
Art
The Extraordinary Marcia Hafif
For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.
Art
Philadephia's "Festival for the People" Is Short on Locals
I wish Philadelphia Contemporary had better followed through on the promise of representing everyday people within the city with its Festival for the People.
Art
The Potential of Ancestral Memory to Reconcile Personal and Racial Histories
In his exhibition at Yours Mine & Ours gallery Steve Locke aestheticizes the entanglement of personal, familial, and racial histories which sits upon the mantel of every Black American home.
Art
Bernar Venet's Retrospective Creates a Modernist Mausoleum
Like tumbled tombstones marking the graveyard of self-referential Modernism, the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon presents a remarkable set of remembrances to ponder.
Art
A Timely Remembrance For Witch Hunts Of The Past by Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor
A pilgrimage to visit Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor’s Norwegian memorial made for victims of the witchcraft trials hits home.