Art
Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín’s Andean Modernism
The artist’s works are like maps through which he conjures familiar habitats, while tracing the roots of modernism to the graphic expressiveness of Andean art.
Reviews
Film
In Four Daughters, Women’s Narratives Prevail
Kaouther Ben Hania’s feature film blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, individual and systemic.
Art
Daniel Senise’s Complex Minimalism
At first glance, Senise’s paintings appear coolly cerebral but standing close to the canvas’s surface we can observe that they are teeming with detail.
Art
Cammie Staros Unearths the Male Chauvinism of Hellenic Art
Her work interrogates how the continued prominence of Hellenic aesthetics has shaped our present and what this may say about our future.
Books
Can AI Be Better at Art History Than Us?
Artificial Intelligence may efficiently sort images but loses out to a humanistic approach.
Art
Takako Saito Made Fluxus Fun
“I don’t want people to be an audience,” the artist explained in a 2014 interview, “I want everybody to be participants. Everybody involved!”
Books
Celebrating Feminist Art’s Unruly Bodies
Art Monsters reassesses controversial feminist artists who turned to body-focused art to rebel against the societal norms eager to suppress them.
Art
Nicholas Galanin Looks Past Trauma to Recovery
Galanin takes the notion of creation in the service of care seriously, and the theme serves as a through line in his retrospective at SITE Santa Fe.
Art
Chinese Artists Reimagine Queer Photography
If straightness implies direction, queerness in (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography suggests anything but.
Film
Video Essays to Beat the January Blues
With new movies, shows, and such coming at a slow pace in January, here are some engaging video essays to keep you busy.
Art
The Divine Dissatisfaction of Music
Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly’s Musical Thinking at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is alive with pathos.
Art
Elias Sime Brings Out the Beauty in E-Waste
He seeks to make visible the vast scale of the waste produced by digital technologies, which are also reaching obsolescence with increasing rapidity.