Art
Look to the Past and Fear for the Future
Artist Cao Fei asks us to consider how long the benefits of new technologies may last, and what will remain after they’re gone.
Reviews
Art
Sibylle Ruppert’s Dark Fantasy
In Ruppert’s work, vices surround, engulf, and even penetrate her human protagonists.
Books
A Palestinian Poet’s Fragmented Grief
In Border Wisdom, Ahmad Almallah embraces the fissures that language cannot mend.
Art
The Horrors of Being a Middle Age Woman in a Capitalist Society
Shana Moulton’s female protagonist in Meta/Physical Therapy is charmingly overwhelmed by the small mundanities of contemporary life.
Art
Nora Turato Makes Collective Angst Creative
The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.
Art
When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World
Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans.
Art
A Haitian Artist Fights Gang Life With Art
Lesly Pierre Paul's New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs.
Art
Stan VanDerBeek’s Virtual Windows on the World
A cacophony of life, death, and perfume ads, transmitted across the same frequency, VanDerBeek’s fax collages captures an “international picture language.”
Art
Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
Art
Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain
The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Art
How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Film
The Art World and the American Hustle Meet in Problemista
Julio Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.