Film
A Queer Love Story That's Gorgeous, If Not Groundbreaking
Is Call Me By Your Name’s queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?
Reviews
Art
Works Whose Resonance Overcomes Its Everyday Setting
An exhibition at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is installed in an office space. But the fact that the artworks hold up and make me want to spend time with them speaks to their powers.
Performance
A Performance About Queerness Emulates a Soap Opera
With humor and intellectual curiosity, the Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf's Room for Cream uses the lens of soap operas to investigate contemporary queerness.
Art
Wander the Lost City of Teotihuacán in Minecraft
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.
Art
The Feminist and Critical Pop Art of Nicola L.
The SculptureCenter is hosting Nicola L.'s first institutional survey, cementing her reputation and oeuvre as thoroughly feminist.
Art
The Emotions of Interpretation
The process of interpretation, and its underlying emotions, are at the core of Alejandro Cesarco's exhibition.
Art
Matt Bollinger’s America
This is the American dream gone wrong.
Art
Irving Petlin’s Armada of Discontent
Whatever your life story, it is part of a larger history – this is what Petlin recognizes and is perhaps why he suppresses the personal or anecdotal.
Art
Virginia Wagner’s Landscapes of Exquisite Dread
Wagner would agree with Samuel Beckett, that “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
Art
Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
Art
Photos from the Dashboard
Robert Marshall's dreamlike images are fleeting, fragmentary glimpses out the window of a moving car or train.
Art
The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.