Film
Black Mirror's "Black Museum" Episode Is a Revenge Fantasy That Comes Up Short
In this popular episode, we're presented with a symbolic reckoning against a system that remains unscathed.
Reviews
Art
The Life of Kathleen White as Told Through Her Art and Nan Goldin’s Photographs
A pair of exhibitions at Pioneer Works showcases Kathleen White's commemorative artworks incorporating the hair of deceased friends and Nan Goldin's photographs of White, who died in 2014.
Art
Barbara Hammer Refuses the Male Gaze in 1970s Photographs
Hammer came out in 1970 and her work during that period feels tied to her declaration of independence from social norms.
Art
How Fashion Has Constricted Women’s Bodies Over 250 Years
An exhibit at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology looks at society's obsession with the body through garments from the late 1700s to our time.
Art
The Story of NYC Trash Through Art and Artifacts
The City Reliquary in Brooklyn is exploring centuries of trash in New York City, and the artists and groups who have responded to it.
Art
Documenting Experiences of Mecca Both Sacred and Irreverent
Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys at the Brooklyn Museum is an exhibition that examines the confrontation between the authentic and imagined Mecca, and of pilgrims with the tourism industry.
Art
A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
Art
Retooling Paint for the Digital Era
In his quietly dazzling New York solo debut, Ryan Crotty pushes post-painterly abstraction past the anxiety of influence.
Art
The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview
Celebrating art made by autodidacts situated, by choice or circumstance, on the margins of culture and society.
Art
The Cosmic Utopianism of Two Fin-de-Siècle Collectives
The exhibition is strongest conceptually when the curators focus on the artist collectives that sought a new social and cosmic order through art.
Books
The Many Spheres of Hell As Seen In Japanese Art
Depicts of hell in Japanese art are intricate fantasy that were used to inspire moral behavior and the only figures smiling are the demons.
Art
A Tlingit Artist’s Contemporary Take on Her Vanishing Culture
Alison Marks’s sculptures, paintings, and textiles often appear gently familiar, but then take a deeper, more troubling turn.