Art
When You Want to Be Part of the Nation, but It Won't Let You In
What is a nation, and who gets to belong?
Reviews
Art
An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America
Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies.
Film
A Film Shows How Important It Is to Name One's Desire
Moonlight is largely about the violence done to Chiron that enmeshes him in silence, against the grain of moments of inexplicable kindness that break through to nurture him towards trust.
Books
Reader’s Diary: John Mullan’s ‘Anonymity’
In case you were wondering, no, it was not by oversight that I didn’t bother to mention, when writing last week about Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the recent brouhaha about the violation of Ferrante’s privacy.
Art
Where to Next?
For a poet who is notorious for writing opaque poems, a number of collages celebrate the youthful male body with an innocence that is touching, tender, and, frankly, poignant, and sweet.
Art
The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler Yeats
Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
Art
With Extreme Prejudice: David Guinn’s Night Room
For Night Room, David Guinn treated the two rooms in the gallery as different parts of the mind.
Art
Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
Sometimes a single, simple pictorial device is all it takes to set your work apart.
Books
Hard Looking: Proust and Gauguin on Art
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt's use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.
Art
An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books
Samuel Levi Jones uses books to raise questions about how history is remade and repurposed for the present and future.
Art
The Smithsonian’s African American Museum Tells the Myriad Stories of Black Heroism
Being among such a dizzying selection of uplifting stories, you cannot avoid the conclusion that America would not be what it is without all the people represented here.
Art
Visions of Pulsing Milk and Toothy Corn
The centerpiece of Monica Cook's new exhibition at Postmasters Gallery is the stop-motion video "Milk Tooth," which brings to life a vivid and dystopian alternate world.