Art Review
The Communal Roots of Ben Shahn's Social Realism
The 20th-century artist belonged to a "prophetic community" that resisted oppression.
Reviews
Art Review
Magali Lara Stitches Together the Personal and Political
A survey of work by the pioneering Mexican feminist artist reimagine landscapes and home interiors as sites of political and emotional tension.
Art Review
Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds
The hybridized energy of Woolfalk's art is infectious; it permeates everything we see, while prodding us to question what we imagine the future might look like.
Art Review
The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.
Film Review
An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art.
Art Review
Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
Film Review
The Renaissance, but Make It Game of Thrones
A new documentary emphasizes the political intrigues of Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
Film Review
Rashaad Newsome’s Futurist Manifesto of Black Joy
His film Assembly is more than just documentation of a performance. It’s a kind of communion.
Art Review
Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art
So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime.
Art Review
150 Years of American Art Comes to Life
A show at the Art Students League leans on the names of its alumni and the aura of its environs, but that’s enough.
Art Review
For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable
As an HIV-positive trans woman and advocate, Dzubilo faced challenges that should have been history by the early 2000s, yet persist today.
Art Review
The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron
It is crucial to grapple with the colonial structures that helped sustain the lives and work of the two 19th-century contemporaries, both celebrated as feminist heroines.