Art
Connecting Brazil's Indigenous Past to Its Activist Present
An exhibition at the Museu de Arte do Rio showcases Brazil's thriving indigenous languages, cultures, and activism.
Reviews
Performance
An Uprising Beneath the Streets of Los Angeles
The 1966 student protests in Durango are the basis for a performance by the Mexico City-based collective Teatro Línea de Sombra.
Art
Painting by Touch, Not by Sight
Kim Dingle is an artist with a history of working under preconceived constraints.
Art
An Artist’s Irrepressible Alter Ego
In the world of Ebecho Muslimova’s recurring character, Fatebe, there are no men: they are irrelevant.
Art
In Praise of the Baffling
Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.
Art
Michelangelo's Divine Magnitude and Picasso's Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
Music
Pop Fixations: St Vincent, Lorde, Taylor Swift, Portugal the Man
Three of these four albums count among 2017’s best, and they all share the same producer.
Art
Conjuring the Demons and Mysteries of Society through Painting
For Collage as Painting, Kate Abercrombie and Trevor Winkfield look at mysterious, esoteric, and sometimes troubling aspects of everyday life.
Art
Painting the Sky on Sunday
Byron Kim's diaristic texts offer a bird’s-eye view of his life — the youth soccer games, the dinner parties, the glum and the optimistic moods, the children going away to college.
Books
The Entirely Fake Villages Erected Around the World
The Potemkin Village is a phenomena that appears in countries all around the world.
Film
Loving Vincent Is a Visually Dazzling But Weak Story About van Gogh
In short, the visuals far outmaneuver the storyline.
Film
A Darkly Comic Animated Film Set on China's Urban-Rural Fringe
Have a Nice Day is a stark, ruthless, and true-to-life movie about people living on the urban-rural fringe of China today.