Art
From Birch-Bark Shoes to Propaganda Posters, Surveying Relics from the Russian Revolution
The British Library exhibition features a wide variety of media, but what’s notably lacking is a sense of the upheaval of the time.
Reviews
Film
Monkey Around with a Simian Cinema Series
Anthology Film Archives’ latest series explores fictional, factual, and farcical portrayals of monkeys in movies.
Art
Eric Fischl Paints the Precariousness of Growing Old
In his new show at Skarstedt, the artist creates confrontations between young, fresh bodies and tired, aging flesh.
Art
A Journey Through James Turrell’s Disorienting World at the Newly Expanded MASS MoCA
Into the Light, which will remain on long-term view at the museum, brings together installations from every stage of Turrell's five-decade career.
Performance
A Performance Celebrating Female Defiance Goes Off Course
Jessica Mitrani's performance "Traveling Lady" takes Nellie Bly's 72-day journey around the globe as its departure point, but the result is less than inspiring.
Art
Miniature Universes Constructed from Archaeological Fragments
In his current exhibition TERRAoptics at Sepia Gallery, Vivan Sundaram has created tableaux with ceramic pottery shards from an archeological dig at Pattanam, in the Indian state of Kerala.
Art
Figures Formed from the Primal Energies of Paint
Janice Nowinski's paintings, currently on view at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, possess a kind of brute grace.
Art
Cultural Diplomacy and Artwashing at Documenta in Athens
It remains a question whether Learning from Athens actually manages to learn anything from Greece and its financial crisis.
Art
An Introduction to the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde of the 1960s and ’70s
An exhibition at Elizabeth Dee gallery offers a dense survey of a little-known topic, but without enough information.
Art
From a Jade Burial Suit to Terracotta Warriors, a Blockbuster Display of China's Ancient Treasures
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Age of Empires features over 160 archaeological finds, mostly from shrines and royal tombs from the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Art
Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes
The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961.
Books
How Not to Look at Pictures
Robert Walser was likely to find in images a reason to look into his own fervent imagination.