Comics
A Conflicted Cartoonist Ponders Roy Lichtenstein
A new documentary asks whether the Pop Art icon appropriated the work of comic artists. If so, who’s truly to blame?
Reviews
Film
The Ghostly Afterlives of Cinema
Pictures of Ghosts is concerned not just with how cinema makes memory tangible, but also how we historically have interacted with it.
Film
50 Years Later, Guy Debord Is Still Accurate
A new film adaptation of his 1967 essay “The Society of the Spectacle” reminds us that the revolution must take place within the self first.
Art
Frans Hals, a Dutch Golden Age Rebel
He contributed to his own obscurity by portraying his sitters and characters with humor and smiles, rather than aloof nobility.
Art
The Glimmering World of Dorothy Liebes’s Weavings
A new book and show at Cooper Hewitt introduces the artist’s vivid, textural world to a new generation.
Art
Remedios Varo in a Sphere of Her Own
Varo's paintings beckon us to plunge into their vaporous worlds while challenging us to decode intricate scenarios.
Art
The Pleasures and Perils of the Amazon Rainforest
What the artworks in Amazonia offer is a means to communicate complex or abstract subjects with uncommon immediacy.
Film
The Best Experimental Shorts at the New York Film Festival
The festival’s Currents program deserves praise for its selection of risk-taking films.
Film
The Story of a Woman Hollywood Tried to Forget
Aurora Mardiganian survived the Armenian Genocide and found freedom in the United States before realizing that the entertainment system she trusted with her story prioritized profit over her pain.
Art
Paula Rego’s Animal Farm
To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.
Art
The Past and Futures of African Metal Arts
SIGHTLINES increases the visibility of African art, bringing metal arts from the 19th and 20th centuries together with works by contemporary African artists.
Art
Ludovic Nkoth’s Fleeting Feelings of Home
Through his practice, Cameroon-born Ludovic Nkoth continuously grasps to connect threads of home as it remains a shape-shifting and ever-moving target.