Film
A Surrealist Filmmaker's Legacy of Feminism and Cinematic Innovation
Germaine Dulac may have just been too far ahead of her time as a queer woman filmmaker, and too prodigious in her output to receive proper recognition in any category.
Reviews
Art
Why Grown-Ups Should Play With Artists' Books Designed for Kids
A gloriously tactile exhibit at the Center for Book Arts offers a refreshing sense of playfulness in this age of anxiety.
Film
The Anarchic Movies of Ronald Rice, a 1960s Underground Filmmaker Who Died at 29
With just a handful of films to his name, Rice is a seminal, if little seen, New York filmmaker who embraced a rowdy improvisational approach.
Art
The Unsung Heroes of Burning Man Go Unnoticed
A host of creative, kind, brave, funny people go unsung in No Spectators, which is centered on a narrow, affluent segment of the Burning Man population.
Film
Searching Is the Latest Movie to Be Told Entirely on a Computer Screen
In Searching, a man begins scouring his daughter's computer and social media presence after she goes missing.
Art
150 Phalluses in Feminist Art Today
In the Cut is a seductive and enigmatic mental play in which it becomes possible, inescapable in fact, to glimpse the world through a feminine lens.
Art
The Luminous Effects of a Light and Space Painter
It is Mary Corse’s use of the humble paint brush that allows the viewer to become sensitive to how light is dispersed in the space they occupy.
Books
Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America's Most Heavily Guarded Prison
Debi Cornwall offers a vivid and unsettling glimpse of the infamous US detention center in her book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay.
Art
David Wojnarowicz’s Native American Inspiration and the “Killing Machine Called America”
Though Wojnarowicz, like most Americans, viewed Indians through a romanticized lens, his interest in the shared death space of those marked as expendable reveals the possibility for collaboration beyond life.
Performance
Re-staging the First English Autobiography, Written by a Woman 500 Years Ago
The revival of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, based on The Book of Margery Kemp, tells the story of a fiercely independent medieval woman and her contradictory path to sainthood.
Art
Revisiting a Czech Artist's Collages of Human Cruelty, 50 Years After the Prague Spring
While Grimace of the Century at Prague's National Gallery is not dedicated to Kolář's collage series Diary 1968 alone, its constant presence is such that all the works on display cannot but assume a political valence.
Art
The Political Art that Shaped Cold War Hungary
An exhibition at the Wende Museum explores the art and culture of socialist-era Hungary and offers a chance to consider relationships beteween art and politics during the Cold War.