Film
Guillermo del Toro's latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.
Art
All the Queens Houses is a photographic survey by Rafael Herrin-Ferri that explores the idiosyncratic architecture of NYC's most diverse borough.
Film
Last year, Nikkatsu rebooted its Roman Porno series with five new films, two of which are currently streaming on the platform Mubi.
Art
Geta Brătescu's work positions the artist as a creator of freedom even in oppressive times.
Art
Never Built New York at the Queens Museum explores almost two centuries of unrealized architecture through blueprints, drawings, a panorama, and a bouncy castle.
Art
A tale about the hazards of power ties together a collection of large-scale photomontages of images from mass demonstrations around the US and Europe.
Art
Visceral, tender, and sometimes frightening works by women brought dynamism and a huge range of perspectives to the fairs of Miami Art Week.
Art
In Anna Conway's paintings, subtle evocations of the past highlight the tensions of our current moment.
Performance
Carmen C. Wong has been organizing “tactile” food performances for roughly a decade, and she is now hosting unique events centered around the deeper philosophical meanings of meals.
Art
With varying degrees of success, a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco looks at how storytelling can help us access spirituality.
Art
In this retrospective there’s no question about Dion’s aesthetic eye and his capacity for the subtle, intuitive kind of taxonomy-making that artists engage in.
Books
Navid Kermani puts his finger on what’s divisive in poetry and culture.