Art
A Profound Sense of Place at the Arizona Biennial
This year’s biennial presents a powerful glimpse into relationships between the land and a vast array of entities grounded there.
Reviews
Art
SWANA Women Artists Deserve Better
The exhibition Women Defining Women at LACMA suffers from poorly defined parameters and a weak understanding of its own premise.
Art
A Posthumous Life for Painter Claude Rutault’s Improvisations
Experiencing Rutault’s works is like being confronted with one’s beliefs, one’s own faith in painting, or lack of it.
Art
Staying Close to the Land With Plein Air Painting
A new show of plein air painting in California offers a compelling take on our relationship to land and what it means to spend time trying to understand the outdoors.
Books
A Multi-Generational Gee's Bend Story, Told by One Quilt
Stitching Love and Loss narrates the history of the Pettway family, the community of Gee’s Bend, and the entwined tragedies of slavery and Indigenous dispossession.
Film
Ja’Tovia Gary Reimagines Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Her short film Quiet As It’s Kept captures the essence of Morrison’s first novel with the same foreboding precision.
Art
Three Shows Celebrate Chicago’s Latine Art Heritage
What better way to celebrate the centennial of Chicago artist and community organizer Carlos Cortéz than with a trio of exhibitions dedicated to the intersections between Latine printmaking and politics?
Film
The Trailblazing Black Model Who Changed the Fashion Industry
To say that Bethann Hardison has contributed to racial progress in one of the world’s most whitewashed realms is an understatement. But a new documentary about her life might have gone a step too far.
Art
The Infinite, Never-Released Scream
Asako Tabata presents a stark, unsettling vision of a society in which women have little chance to achieve autonomy.
Books
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Marxist Criticism of Painting
Pasolini's consideration of art included essays, reviews, poems, and autobiographical meditations.
Art
How an Artist Can Embody Human Rights
With her solo show at the Watermill Center, Regina José Galindo considers how a universal object — the body — can speak to issues of human rights.
Art
Does Nobody Walk in LA?
Fiona Connor’s “Continuous Sidewalk” tells the story of a city where many people walk every day as part of their lives, livelihoods, and just for a casual stroll.