Art
Chance Encounters With Tania Pérez Córdova’s Art
Poetic and subtle, her work invites viewers to contemplate each material as it changes, or stays the same, over time.
Reviews
Art
How R.B. Kitaj Kept It All Together
In Kitaj’s work, the whole is an extravagant layering of several images into one.
Books
Renny Pritikin’s Adventures in Bay Area Art
The curator, writer, and teacher’s memoir winds its way through his four-decade career, arriving, geographically and conceptually, back where he started.
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?
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.