Art
A Painter's Extraterrestrial Journey Through the Light of Day
In recent decades, living and working in and around Cape Cod, Paul Resika’s imagery has veered between the naturalistic and the mythical.
Reviews
Music
Fast, Fizzy, Rapturous, and Bloodcurdling: U.S. Girls, Turnstile, Amen Dunes, Sofi Tukker
Four albums aspire to subversion, but delight is disruptive by definition.
Art
Philip Guston's Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
Art
Bringing the Signs and Textures of South Central LA into the Museum
Lauren Halsey's site-specific installation transforms the typically austere space of the museum into a utopian dream made of the people, symbols, and imagery of South Central Los Angeles.
Art
Bringing Our Social Media Spaces and Selves into the Gallery
An exhibition at the University of Denver features installations that substitute digital spaces and images for embodied replicas, and vice versa.
Art
Recharting America’s Origin Story Through Quilts
Stephen Towns’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Unique Personalities of New York City Pigeons
Andrew Garn's book of photographs invites readers to see pigeons as friendly, feathered neighbors rather than pesky foe.
Film
Political Corruption Haunts an Afrofuturist Film Set in Brasília
The 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff looms over Adirley Quierós’s new movie Once There Was Brasília.
Art
How the Nebulous Internet Has Influenced Art Since 1989
A large survey exhibition comprehensively traces the internet's influence on artistic practice since 1989, uneasily and unexpectedly revealing how it can subsume both the art and its viewing contexts.
Film
A Documentary Tracks the Competitive Theatrics of John McEnroe
A new documentary made up solely of footage of the tennis star shot in 1984 is a meditation on the psycho-dramatics of sports and a pure celebration of the body in motion.
Film
A Portrait of Philosopher Donna Haraway as an Impassioned Storyteller
A documentary about the canonic thinker, shot mostly in her home office, seems straightforward at first, then jellyfish start shimmering across the screen.
Art
A New Contemporary Art Museum in Virginia Leads with Politics
Declaration, the first show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth Institute, foregrounds work dealing with social justice, belonging, and the erosion of time.