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.
Reviews
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.
Art
Floral Arrangements Enter the Art Gallery in Los Angeles
As Canary Test’s owners interacted with their green-thumbed neighbors, they observed that the artistry behind floral arrangement was not unlike sculpture.
Film
How a Billionaire Bought an Ecosystem
Taming the Garden is a meditation on constancy, change brought about by the will and wealth of one person, and complex ecosystems.
Art
The Illicit Allure of Art Forgery
An anarchic desire to undermine the art world’s institutions lends art forgers a roguish, rebellious identity that is both compelling and unsavory.
Art
Looking Anew at Mina Loy, From Paris to the Bowery
Loy’s work as an artist and writer was as groundbreaking as it was evanescent, and a new exhibition helps bring it back into view.
Art
What if Radical Femmes Ruled the Heavens?
In Wynnie Mynerva’s The Original Riot, Eve and Lilith make a pact using Eve’s right rib, vowing to create a new world absent of patriarchal subjugation.