Art
A Photo Exhibition Reduces Queer Desire to Clichés
Try not to roll your eyes: the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has created an exhibition about the erotic.
Reviews
Art
Paintings that Conjure the Ghostly Hand of the Artist
Ghost Maker brings together Ginny Casey’s new large-scale paintings of still lifes and floating hands.
Art
Feminist Explorations of Our Online Wonderland
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The small (but densely layered, as always) collection of Ann Hirsch's work in the Bakalar Gallery at MIT's List Center is Boston's first introduction to her art.
Art
For One Month Each Year, an Artist Builds an Instrument Every Day
For nearly nine years, sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar has produced a handmade instrument each day during the month of February.
Art
Animations that Show Their Material Roots
A silhouette of a horse is drawn mid-stride several times in layers to create the effect of motion.
Art
An Emerging World of Wonder and Desolation in Equal Parts
This installation begins with awe of the sanitized world that we may likely build in the future, and it ends with the guarantee of nothing.
Art
Artists Reinterpret an Anonymous Soldier’s 1940s Reconaissance Photos of India
Following the Box brings the aesthetic power of found photographs front and center.
Art
Artists from Turkey Navigate History, Memory, and Authorship
ISTANBUL — The authorship of the exhibition, which initially seems clear and dictated by the space, is flipped by the meanings and messages of the works on view.
Film
A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette's Story of Marie and Julien
No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.
Art
Starting in 1963, a Photographer Spends His Life Exploring Worlds We Have Yet to Recognize
This is Barboza in a nutshell: headstrong and determined. He did move New York and go to the school he found in the telephone book, but not for long because it wasn’t serious enough.
Books
The Kimono, Examined: A New Book and a Definitive Collection
In the West, is there any garment more elegant than a tuxedo, one that makes its wearer, no matter what size or age, almost always look (and feel) great? In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.
Art
Paint as Language, Language as Paint: Paul D’Agostino’s Chromatic Alphabet
The fluency of concept and form in Paul D’Agostino’s new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.