Art
For Yoshitomo Nara, Home Is Where Unease Is
The artist’s work revolves around the notion of displacement, some of it cultural, much of it the broader angst and rebellion of adolescence.
Reviews
Film
The Secret Life of Suzanne Césaire
Merging the filmmaking process with snippets of the protagonist's life and words,The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire blurs distinctions between past and present.
Art
Emily Nelligan’s Self-Portraits of Place
In charcoal and ink, the artist tends to the land with the intimate repetition of a life-long student.
Art
The Eternal Dance Between Beauty and Decay
A London show examines the concept of beauty and its inevitable decay across pan-historical, pan-geographical, and pan-religious examples.
Books
The Beautiful Pagan Soul of Piero di Cosimo
A new book provides an ideal introduction to a Renaissance painter largely known only to specialists, but who was counted among the most important of his generation.
Film
Kaos Draws From Art History to Tell Its Story
The Netflix show relies on a heavy dose of high fashion and Western art to bring the chaotic world of Ancient Greek mythology to life.
Books
When Writing Criticism Feels Like Pouring Time Down the Sink
Reflecting on her own reactions to Chantal Akerman’s namesake film, Christine Smallwood muses on the personal baggage we inevitably bring to the art we consume.
Art
Artists Embrace the Monsters That We Make
Real or imagined, the monsters envisioned in the show Among Monsters do not exist without us.
Art
Manny Vega Tells the Stories of El Barrio
The artist created many mosaics and murals around East Harlem in celebration of important figures in Puerto Rican and Latinx communities.
Art
Lap-See Lam Refashions Chinese Diaspora From Aboard a Spectral Ship
The artist’s film installation centers on the character of Lo Ting, the human-fish folkloric ancestor of the people of Hong Kong.
Books
Is the Art World More Corrupt Than Ever?
Rachel Spence succinctly explicates the power struggles that brought us to this point, though her insistence that the art ecosystem is at an all-time low left me unconvinced.
Art
A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.