Performance
Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity
Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.
Reviews
Art
Madrid’s Enterprising Heritage Seen Through Its Signs
With their exhibition of signs, Madrid collective Paco Graco has created a catalyst for conversations about the city's past, present, and future.
Art
Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity
Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs.
Art
Catherine Opie’s Intimate Los Angeles
The works in Opie’s harmony is fraught are documents that bear witness, but they also highlight the connection between our public and private lives.
Art
The Violent Sublime of Wanda Koop’s Paintings
Koop both illuminates and conceals expressions of power, aestheticizing and making visible Russia’s violent war on Ukraine.
Art
Ethiopia’s Art at the Crossroads of Traditions
A new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore unfurls continuities between past and present across East Africa’s rich artistic traditions.
Books
Three Modernist Women Who Reclaimed the Nude
Painting Her Pleasure delves into the work of three women artists whose own engagement with the nude was prescient and groundbreaking
Art
Gormley and Rodin Go Head to Head
In Antony Gormley’s Critical Mass at the Musée Rodin, the dialogue between the artists becomes a devastating boxing match in which Rodin delivers a knockout every time.
Art
A Sámi Artist’s Call for Ancestral Return
Outi Pieski disrupts colonial narratives to instead embody the deep relationship between a landscape and its people.
Art
Pink Dolphins Bear Witness to the Amazon’s Destruction
Three shows in Manhattan wield film, sculpture, and archival ephemera to illuminate the historical threads of ecological devastation in the vast region.
Film
A Batch of Video Essays for the Last Days of Winter
Donald Duck, Disney theme parks, and other excitement make up this month’s video essay roundup.
Art
Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins
In Eveleth's work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice.