Film
On 'Amy' and 'Ex Machina'
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
Weekend
Art
Naoto Nakagawa’s Art of Seeing and Being
Aristotelians and logical positivists alike have had a field day speculating about the related phenomena of sight, perception, and truth, but what about the revelations one may glean through the unsinkable, old-fashioned medium of elastic, luminous paint?
Art
Every Picture in the World: William Buchina's Dream Logic
William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, LA's new Edsel of architecture, a doghouse architect, time-slice photography, photoshopping the Broad, the connection between video games and literature, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Catch
On Tuesday, legendary wordsmith and Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90.
Music
Twenty One Pilots: Eclectopop
Twenty One Pilots confound genre lines so exuberantly that even Wikipedia has no idea what to make of them.
Art
It Is What It Isn’t
It has been two years since Patrick Strezelec had his first exhibition of sculptures in New York in more than a decade.
Art
Clifford Owens’s Scatological Whispers
In the past five or six years, Clifford Owens’ provocative performance work has begun to garner notable, sometimes polarizing, attention.
Art
Daisy Craddock’s Pastel Drawings: If Landscapes Could Talk
If a dollop of paint or a chunk of stone could talk, might it reveal just how much it enjoyed having been scraped across a canvas by a Joan Mitchell or picked at by the masterful, form-seeking hands of an Isamu Noguchi?
Interview
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Lesley Vance
LOS ANGELES — “We are drinking beer, right? Because I’m celebrating, “ Lesley Vance says to me when I arrive at her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a white poet's yellowface, this Hirshhorn Museum's new director and new problems, Brazilian Pop art politics, the photographic politics of Instagram, 4,500 Man Ray artworks in Queens, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Bully
Is Donald Trump a bully? It depends on who you ask.