Art
Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life
Mel Chin's work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.
Reviews
Art
An Artist’s Violent and Beautiful Reflections of South Korea
Lee Bul illuminates the relationship between South Korea’s artists and their country over the tumultuous second half of the 20th century.
Art
SVA Students Reinterpret Intersectionality Through a Queer Lens
Maybe the meaning of intersectionality has changed. Maybe it's less about projecting an image of oneself and more about empathizing with others' internal complexities and contradictions.
Art
When Our Heroes Die and We Publicly Mourn Them
The photographs of both Paul Fusco and Rein Jelle Terpstra explore what happens when a public figure, upon whom has been thrust the hope of millions, disappears.
Art
A Painter Reflects on When Black Men Get to Rest
After undergoing brain surgery, Mario Moore produced a series of works about Black men resting and recovering — a realm he describes as a "fantasy land."
Film
A Chance to Revisit Barbara Loden’s Only Feature Film, Considered a Feminist Masterpiece
While Loden initially went unnoticed, today she is seen as an unsung auteur whose promise was tragically cut short by her death from breast cancer in 1980.
Art
A Festival of North African Contemporary Art During an Age of Anxiety
The 5th edition of Jaou Tunis at the Kamel Lazaar Foundation brings together the works of various North African artists in a beautiful and oftentimes political display.
Art
How to Talk About Whiteness
The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to “make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable,” to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.
Film
How Women Filmmakers Were Bending Social Norms Since the Birth of Cinema
Women were fighting since the very beginning of celluloid for a role that allowed them to express their creativity.
Art
The Czech Painter Often Credited with Inventing Pure Abstract Art
Looking at František Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.
Art
Looking Back on the Golden Age of Fashion Illustration with Jim Howard
A showcase of Howard's work from the 1960s through the '80s illustrates major shifts in consumer behavior and records an art career that no longer exists today.
Books
Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles
Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the '60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.