Art
When Artists Carry the Burden of History
No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history’s weight: how heavily the past’s truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.
Reviews
Books
A World in Crisis: Bending, Quaking, Breaking
The Great Regression, edited by Heinrich Geiselberger, portrays the state of international politics as already hellbent.
Books
An Art Critic's Independent Gaze
Michael Glover takes nothing for granted in his art criticism; he is not dogmatic, nor does he seem to have axe to grind.
Art
Joshua Marsh’s Inimitable Drawings
Marsh might begin with close observation, but he ends up in a fever dream — a garden of otherworldly delights.
Music
Arcade Fire Gives Up on Life
Didn’t U2 already make these albums in the ‘90s?
Art
Tom Pnini’s Cinematic Études
Pnini’s films harken back to early cinema, as he compresses into five minutes what Andy Warhol dragged out for five hours.
Art
A Maine Painter's Private Realm of Becoming
John Walker has led a resurgence of abstract painters who look to nature, emotion, and, especially, place.
Art
Exploring Turkey's Political Crises Through Symbols of Byzantine Supremacy
Viron Erol Vert’s exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien questions political, historical, and cultural paradigms and the role of power in them.
Art
Seeking Escape in Paintings of a Childhood Home
In her exhibition at Sargent's Daughters, Brandi Twilley depicts windows as portals beyond the bleak circumstances of her family's house.
Books
The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction
In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.
Art
The Japanese American Architect Who Was a Disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright
Kaneji Domoto, a little-known architect from the Bay Area, designed five houses for the famous planned community of Usonia.
Film
A Polish Filmmaker Explores Trans Identity Through Abstraction
Wojciech Puś's Endless is loosely based on the life of a trans woman, but it is not about a journey from point A to point B.