Art
John Bisbee's Fearless American Steel
Bisbee has never been outspokenly political in his work, but, going by the work in this show, he has decided enough is enough.
Reviews
Art
Marilyn Lerner's Random and Deliberate Geometries
I have long thought of Lerner as an outlier whose inspirations include Hilma af Klint, gameboards, tantric art, and her trips to Turkey, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Art
A Little-Known Chapter of Ralph Humphrey’s Career
There is something inelegant and unstylish about these paintings.
Art
Bringing Milton Resnick Back into the Picture
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation has opened with a must-see exhibition of 50 years of Resnick’s work.
Art
Glimmers of Modernism from a 19th-Century Bordello
A brothel customer’s photographs of 19th-century prostitution, made with sympathy and imagination.
Film
Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
Art
The Gospel at Colonus Brings Greek Tragedy to Church
Church parishioners gathered on Thursday evening, not to attend to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but to study the final chapter of the life of that ill-fated king of Thebes, Oedipus.
Art
A Treasure Trove of Oddities and Timely Exhibitions at Oxford's Ethnography Museum
Originally defined as an academic museum of Anthropology and World Archeology, the Pitt Rivers Museum has morphed into something much more extensive and meaningful.
Film
A Movie Uncovers Unpublished Letters Written to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s
Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
Art
Reimagining Artworks as Actors and the Gallery as a Stage
For General Rehearsal, authors wrote scenes for fictional productions, selecting works of art instead of characters.
Art
The Artists Who Led Secret Lives as Musicians
Double Lives showcases the sound-based creations of people better known as artists than musicians.
Art
The Wondrous Alchemy of William Cordova’s Sculptures
In his first museum survey, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Peruvian-born artist William Cordova creates a mostly-wordless history book through his enchanting sculptures, drawings, and installations.