Film
It’s Time for a Queer Comedy Revolution
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution drives home who is worth paying attention to if you want comedy to lighten your load, and your fellow humans'.
Reviews
Books
Challenging the Visual Story of Mass Incarceration
With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics.
Books
How a Tarot Deck Led to a Revolution
What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.
Art
Ed Ruscha Reminds Us to Take Nothing at Face Value
A survey at LACMA takes us through six decades of the artist’s innovations in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials.
Art
Is Anything Subversive About Warhol’s Idealized Male?
Velvet Rage and Beauty seems to position itself as part of a larger project of inflecting our understanding of Warhol with his own sexuality.
Film
A Brooklyn Neighborhood Fights for Its Future in a New Documentary
Emergent City returns to the old-school “fly-on-the-wall” method of filmmaking to capture democracy in practice in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Art
Jimmy Gordon’s Homegrown Surrealism
The artist, a pioneering member of Lexington’s LGBTQ+ art world, used circus and sideshow imagery to create poignant meditations on isolation.
Art
The Rubin Museum’s Swan Song Is an Ode to Himalayan Art Now
The institution’s final show embodies its ethos: inviting viewers to deepen their connections with the world around them via contemplation of art from the region.
Art
A Garden of One’s Own
An exhibition explores the gardens of Bloomsbury Group members Lady Ottoline Morrell, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville-West.
Film
The Dizzying Contradictions in Contemporary Classical Ballet
The dancers we grow to know (and love) in Swan Song are sweating, swearing, soaring women, at odds with conceptions of purity and frailness.
Art
Mickalene Thomas Is Fashioning Black Female Beauty
Thomas’s shimmering collages are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality.
Art
The Raw Humanity of Henry Moore’s Drawings
Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear.