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.
Reviews
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.
Art
The Self-Liberation of Arghavan Khosravi
The Iranian artist creates work that moves beyond cliché to create a new visual language about existing freely in the world.
Art
Southwest Printmakers Look to the Borderlands
The art in Desert Triangle Print Carpeta reflects personal narratives and the region’s cultural, social, and political landscape.
Art
Towards a Better World With Kim Abeles
Throughout her career, Abeles’s works have involved community outreach and art-making workshops that led to healing and social change.
Books
Confessions of a Met Museum Info Desk Worker
Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic answers questions readers never knew they had.