Art
An Abstract Painter’s Disciplined Grace
Brooklin A. Soumahoro’s luminous paintings are filled with moments of alchemy, transforming shape into line and discipline into grace.
Reviews
Film
The Quotidian Labor of Political Movements
Direct Action demonstrates that fiery protests and violent police encounters are just one facet of the real work of activism
Art
An Exhibition Pairs Two Artists and Somehow Both Seem Worse
If it had simply suggested that François Boucher and Flora Yukhnovich are united in creating tasteful house decoration for the rich, the exhibition would be a success.
Art
Artists With Disabilities Show Us How We’ve Failed
After being immersed in to hold a we at BRIC, I beheld the city with new eyes: steep subway steps, jagged sidewalks, casual cruelty built into our everyday lives.
Film
In a New Doc, Ukrainians Are Seen and Russians Overheard
Intercepted pairs intercepted phone calls by Russian soldiers to friends and family back home with images of post-battle scenes around Ukraine.
Art
Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible
The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.
Comics
Yoko Ono’s Quiet Destructions
Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career.
Art
The Elementary School That Welcomed Keith Haring
To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.
Art
An Intimate Autobiography of Robert Rauschenberg
In many ways, Autobiography, a small Rauschenberg exhibition in Santa Barbara, is self-explanatory, and this is its great strength.
Art
The Problem With b. Robert Moore’s All-Encompassing Afro-Pessimism
The experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts.
Art
The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages
One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.
Books
Elizabeth Catlett’s Steadfast Radicalism
In the catalog for her Brooklyn Museum show, scholars explore how the Black revolutionary artist lived out her beliefs after her exile from the United States.