Art
An Artist’s Bond with Her Imprisoned Father
In Sable Elyse Smith’s exhibition Ordinary Violence, the artist’s father is both muse and specter.
Reviews
Art
Michelangelo’s Majestic Humanity
The Met’s new exhibition presents Michelangelo not as a demigod, but as a student, a thinker, a teacher, and a friend.
Art
Arshile Gorky’s Heretical Abstractions
Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes offers an in-depth exposure to the artist’s personal flowering after spending years at the altar of Cézanne and Picasso
Books
A Comics Artist’s Eerie, Relentlessly Stark Storytelling
I'm Not Here, written under a pseudonym, uneasily follows an immigrant family as they go about their everyday life.
Performance
Reaching for Transcendence with Voice and Light
In Rashaad Newsome's "Running," a vocal tradition reaches expressive new heights and plumbs emotional depths.
Art
An Interactive Documentary About Everyday Life in a Palestinian Village
The Invisible Walls of Occupation is an online interactive documentary that takes viewers into Burqah, a Palestinian village.
Books
The Evolution of Domestic Architecture Across 100 British Homes
100 Houses 100 Years chronicles a century of architecture through the British home, from classical throwbacks to postwar housing to futuristic designs.
Art
Strange Creatures and Constructions Alight on the High Line
The High Line's Mutations exhibition features motion-capture cameras for birds, audio of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and other uncanny interventions in the elevated park.
Film
A Movie Remembers the Artist Who Made Fashion Illustration Fashionable Again
James Crump’s seductive new documentary delves into the fascinating, 1970s universe of the New York-based fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.
Art
Artworks from Two Museums Share a Space, But Not a Conversation
An exhibition joins artworks from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and Studio Museum in Harlem. While an astute idea, there's a sterility to this show that's underpinned by an uninspired curation.
Performance
In Boyle Heights, a Play About a Threatened Village Hits Home
A Latinx-focused adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People dramatizes the tension between the harsh realities of modernity and traditional knowledge and ways of life.
Books
Photographing Some of the World’s Oldest and Wisest Trees
Landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel spent over two years traveling the world to photograph its most remarkable trees.