Film
These Virtual Reality Films Are Blazing a New Trail in Storytelling and Art
Strap on a headset and find yourself on a flooding island halfway around the world or in the body of a Homeland Security interrogator.
Reviews
Books
In Passing for Human, Liana Finck Illustrates Her Search for Selfhood
The New Yorker cartoonist calls her new graphic memoir "a neurological coming-of-age story."
Art
Remembering Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral Train, 50 Years Later
In The Train: RFK's Last Journey, an exhibition at Les Recontres d'Arles, photographs shot from RFK's funeral train in June of 1968 take on new political relevance.
Film
Jill Magid’s Epic Quest to Unlock Luis Barragán’s Archives Is Now a Movie
The Proposal chronicles the artist's attempts at accessing the architect's archives, which famously involved exhuming some of his ashes.
Film
Filming California’s Oldest Freeway and the Communities It Traverses
Communion Los Angeles visits the different communities the 110 is carved through, from the mountains to the sea.
Art
At Manifesta, Artists Address Italy's Migrant Crisis
This year, Palermo, Italy is hosting the nomadic European art biennale Manifesta, which aims to address the city's ongoing migrant crisis — but is the art on view enough to foment actual social and political change?
Art
Eduardo Carrillo, a Painter Who Took Chicano Art Beyond Identity’s Borders
Carrillo’s paintings re-envision the history of art through the heightened Chicano consciousness of his generation and the richness of his bicultural roots.
Art
A New Curatorial Vision Disrupts Inherited Ideas of Regional Identity in African Art
Laura De Becker's first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.
Art
Abstractions that Capture the Light and Shadow of an Artist’s Studio
In Juan Iribarren’s paintings, objects are subject to changing climates, seasons, and hours in a day, and the work is a poetic transcription of such atmospheric shifts.
Film
How Capitalist Power Compensates for Racial Oppression in Crazy Rich Asians
Obscene wealth, and its spectacular power to compensate for racial loss, is the central protagonist we are invited to cheer on in Crazy Rich Asians.
Art
A Surrealist Painter Who Collaborated with the Chicago Jazz Scene
The story of how the 20th century artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, was entrenched in the depths of Chicago’s dark, turbulent, discriminatory, social, and political reality.
Art
Diana Al-Hadid Studies Boundaries While Refusing to Obey Them
In her solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Al-Hadid continues to let the most elemental, universal facts of bodies morph into unique forms.