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.
Reviews
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.
Art
Deborah Roberts’s Elegy for Lost Innocence
Roberts centers the beauty and vulnerability of Black children, which is often seized from them at a young age via systemic violence in the United States.
Art
Sexual Liberation From Pasolini to Bruce LaBruce
LaBruce’s The Visitor shows that physical desire can lead the way to something more as his characters redefine themselves in new, potentially radical ways.
Film
Steve McQueen’s Vision of the Weaponized Body
Hunger explores how incarcerated men transgressed the confines of prison by weaponizing their bodies to contaminate, disrupt, and acquire agency.
Art
Max Beckmann’s Singular Path
His attitude toward his fellow humans ricocheted between admiration and affection, frustration, fury, and horror — at times all in a single painting.
Art
A Pajama Party That Pauses Time
With Slumber Party, Benoît Piéron transforms the harshness of hospitals into a softer, dream-like space, where time seems flexible.