Film
Windjammer, a movie following a half-year voyage across the Atlantic, used a brand-new extreme widescreen camera system that hoped to become a new industry standard.
Art
An LED display loops a message in Lawrence Lek's installation, which prompts the question “inside the game, can anybody tell the difference between art and the world?”
Books
For Triste Tropique, Topographies of Sadness, Damien Rudd sought out the world's glummest-sounding spaces.
Art
At best, All Too Human shows well known artists at an intriguing new angle and revisits lesser known names, but at worst makes some perplexing curatorial choices which defy its own set of rules, stretching relevance through some optimistic inclusions.
Art
There is this sense, in looking at Hawkins's bold and humorous paintings, of returning to something one has always known.
Art
Essenhigh reveals a freedom that resonates with all manner of fusion: of figure and design, of abstraction and narrative, of sentiment and humor, and more generally, of ambitious painting with a readable narrative.
Art
"If you are of African descent and your ancestors were part of the slave trade, you have issues which are alive today.”
Art
Spending time in Laurie Anderson's “The Chalkroom” reminded me of Terry Gilliam’s film, Time Bandits, where what seems like an endless landscape is revealed to be a mirror when someone breaks it.
Art
Students of the 2018 MFA class are presenting strong work at the Wallach Art Gallery, many of them building large installations around their pieces.
Art
The connection to between Lauren Kalman’s specific body and the process she has undergone to produce these objects is laid out in graphic terms.
Art
Jean Fautrier was a subtle, solitary, strange, serene, and even severe French painter who experienced a good deal of suspension in his saw-tooth-shaped career.
Art
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.