Film
The Commodification of American Motherhood
How to Have an American Baby exposes a Chinese business that cares only for the bottom line, and a private US hospital system more than happy to serve patients paying cash.
Reviews
Art
Rupy C. Tut’s Landscapes of Belonging
Her paintings, springing from traditional Indian miniature painting made large, radiate both rootedness and displacement.
Art
The Mythmaking Apparatus of the US National Parks
In quiet yet scrupulous detail, Designing Experience asks how the US National Park Service shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims.
Art
Dala Nasser Builds a Grief Temple in Chicago
Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.
Film
New Doc Updates Virginia Woolf’s Gender-Bending Orlando
Paul B. Preciado’s film prizes creative passion over pathology, and trades individual trauma for collective and individual transcendence.
Art
The Many Faces of Guadalajara's Famed Ceramics Studio
In the 1990s, Cerámica Suro began to seek out artists, offering its facility as the site for experimental collaborations in clay.
Art
Ali Cherri’s Muddy Affair
The artist retells the myth of Gilgamesh through a meditation on mud, a primordial material and source of timeless storytelling.
Art
On Getting Things a Little Less Wrong
Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.
Art
A Ceramicist Who Defied Art Hierarchies
Ruth Duckworth’s legacy is an unwavering commitment to clay as a medium that expanded beyond the potter’s craft.
Books
The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois for Young Readers
The New Brownies' Book promises to provide an experience any child can enjoy, but one designed especially for those of color.
Art
Marie Laurencin’s Portraits of Sapphic Pleasure
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier,” said painter Marie Laurencin.
Film
Doc Examining Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking Has Its Own Problems
Subject’s premise is novel and has potential, but for all the film’s discussion of ethics, it has its own failings.