Art
Painting Joy at the Deepest Point of Tragedy
Rather than focusing on death and suffering, a clichéd reality in Jewish culture, Peter Krasnow chose to paint vibrant, light-filled compositions.
Reviews
Books
Black Resistance According to Angela Davis and Tschabalala Self
A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and expressive culture.
Art
David Bailly’s Puzzle of a Painting
The longer I looked at Bailly’s “Vanitas Still Life with Portrait of a Young Painter” the more puzzled I became by it.
Art
What's Broken Heals Better
Max Hooper Schneider’s Falling Angels at François Ghebaly evokes both ecological destruction and resurrection, decay and regeneration.
Art
Rina Banerjee Confronts the Orientalizing Gaze
Recurring throughout Banerjee’s work and in her latest exhibition are the threads of power, cultural reproduction, and imperial afterlives.
Film
The Vanished Youth of China’s Textile Workers
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) looks at China’s young textile workers who have migrated from rural homes to stitch mass-produced children’s clothes.
Art
Liu Xiaodong’s Empathetic Eye
One of the underlying commonalities among the sites Liu has painted is the deleterious consequences of modernization on a traditional society or group.
Books
Kinship Amid a Loneliness Epidemic
Through multiple mediums, Kinship demonstrates the ways that a number of artists had to navigate COVID-19’s influence on their process.
Art
Computer Art With a Human Touch
An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques.
Art
Colorado Artists Shine in Massive Exhibition
Breakthroughs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver showcases the work of 18 alumni of RedLine, a local arts nonprofit celebrating its 15th anniversary.
Art
An Artist's Homage to Mundane and Macabre New York
Talia Levitt homes in on the everyday people, animals, and urban infrastructure that are emblematic of New York, but not often celebrated.
Film
Netflix Documentary Exposes the Criminalization of Sexual Assault Victims
Victim/Suspect reveals the extent to which women are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.