Art
Will There Be Fish This Year?
Texture, pattern, repetition, and practice combine with chance and the reality of climate change in the work of Dominick Porras.
Reviews
Art
The Mutual Fascinations of the Low Countries and Muslim-Majority Lands
Imagine Me and You encourages quiet contemplation of the juxtapositions and adaptations between the regions from 1450 to 1750.
Art
In Beatrice Glow's Art, Colonial Histories and AI Collide
The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light.
Art
An Intergenerational Conversation Between Black Women Artists
DON’T YOU MISS US? honors the trailblazing women who paved the way, underscoring the ongoing dialogue between past and present artistic expressions.
Art
The Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.
Art
Tamuna Sirbiladze’s Visions of Wrenching Intimacy
In Not Cool but Compelling, the artist's works churn with the turmoil of life, like emotions sketched in real time.
Art
How Hair Weaves Us Together
Styling Identities pushes the boundaries of museum display to incorporate local communities and global art through the theme of hair.
Art
The Winking Irony of “Ecological” Luxury
The Haas Brothers’ witty functional sculptures alluding to ecology proffer an environment that is knowingly — and laughably — unrealistic.
Art
Queerness and Nature Intersect at Wave Hill
Two shows cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.
Film
When the US Left Afghanistan, This Filmmaker Entered
Director Ibrahim Nash’at spent a year watching the Taliban transition from insurgency back to governance.
Film
Verbatim Reenacts Life With a Twist
The film series showcases how different artists have used reenactments, preserving dialogue and audio but playing with every other element.
Books
Esther Pressoir Is the Coolest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1927, Pressoir carried 30 pounds of art-making supplies on a bike ride from France to Italy. It was just the beginning of an inimitable artistic journey.