Art
An Artist Named Artist Finds Order in Digital Waste
American Artist examines blackness and detachment with broken shards of digital culture.
Reviews
Art
Conceptual Photography Pioneer Suzy Lake Revisits Her Detroit Roots
Though born and raised in Detroit, Lake left the city in 1969, at the very beginnings of a long and experimental art career.
Art
The Art of Liberation in a Utopian Nicaraguan Community
The Dream of Solentiname exhibition uses the Solentiname experiment as a case study to explore the confluence of aesthetics and politics in Central America during the revolutions of the late twentieth century.
Art
Machine Art that Shoots Flames and Rips Stuff Apart
The Survival Research Laboratories stage large-scale sensational “machine art performances,” of which there have been over 55 to date.
Film
A Loving Portrait of Fame, Fraud, and Disco at Studio 54
Studio 54 tells the story of an infamous disco club brought down by excess, but redeemed by its embrace of diversity, sexual liberation, and a sense of community.
Art
A Glitzy Pop-Up Exhibition Savors Surface and Substance
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a bright and at times bizarre show highlights the work of Heidi Barlow, Shaina Kasztelan, and Bailey Scieszka.
Art
Finding Art in the Afterlife of a Foreclosed Home in Florida
In a new exhibition, Ser Serpas explores the connections between destruction and reclamation.
Film
48 Ingmar Bergman Films Ranked
Film Forum's retrospective marking the centennial of the Swedish auteur's birth includes 48 of his films, which we've dutifully ranked from best to worst.
Art
Two Fresh Takes on Portraying Female Bathers in Art
Katherine Bradford and Jen DeNike remind me how much more there is to water in their gem-like show at AE2.
Books
Gaudy Gore and Artful Architecture in a Gaudí Graphic Novel
The book follows a fictional murderer through the iconic architectural creations of Antoni Gaudí.
Art
Visions of Heaven in a Gallery Below Ground
In Hayley Silverman’s new show, shadow-objects and supernatural beings drift through a papaya and strawberry-pink mist.
Art
Michelangelo Traces the States of Being and Non-being
Michelangelo's sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile; strength and tenderness, like figure and ground, are tied together, neither one complete without the other.