Art
Nona Faustine Unearths New York’s Buried History of Slavery
Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence.
Reviews
Film
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival Immersed Audiences in Art
A selection of films on artists and immersive VR experiences all reinforced the ability of art to emerge from and resonate with the viewer on deeply felt levels.
Books
Celebrating James Baldwin's Radical Beauty
In God Made My Face, artists and critics reflect on seeing themselves through the late metamorphic writer’s work.
Art
Phoebe Helander Paints Objects in Time
Helander removes her art from the frozen time in which still life paintings exist and reminds us that the moment recreated has already come and gone.
Art
Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality.
Art
The Unclassifiable Brilliance of Joanne Greenbaum
Fiercely independent, the artist belongs to no art group, movement, or style.
Art
Tamiko Nishimura Makes the Invisible Visible
In Nishimura’s devastating photographs of everyday life in Japan, the past is never past, and the people are rendered invisible.
Art
The Unspoken Truths in Jenny Holzer’s Truisms
Gaza is everywhere across the artist’s Guggenheim show, but you wouldn’t know it.
Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy
Though Frazier's photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs.
Art
Maia Ruth Lee’s Art of Movement and Memory
Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness.
Art
Where Carnal Needs Meet Unearthly Setting
Xingzi Gu broadcasts memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers via ethereal depictions of energies, moods, and emotions.
Art
Lothar Osterburg’s Inner Longings
The tension between optimism and yearning remains taut throughout the artist’s exhibition of photogravures and found-material sculptures.