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The artist’s new exhibition explores freedom, confinement, and
flight in the Black imaginary.
Steffani Jemison: Bound, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Phot…
Country artist, conceptual artist, Texas artist: a celebratory biography of the rangy life and work of Terry Allen.
Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, by Brendan Greaves, H…
A young Salvadoran immigrant in New York City navigates cryogenics, art-world shenanigans, and challenges both real and surreal in Julio Torres’s debut feature film.
Julio Torres as A…
Taking a disturbing page from Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lucas Rijneveld’s second novel pens a tortured, hallucinatory love letter to the fourteen-year-old object of his obsessio…
In Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s third book, stories filled with the dreadful promises of pleasure and malaise.
Ghost Pains, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
And Other Stories, 188 pages, $19.9…
Our contemporary morass, constructed out of cardboard, tape, and foil.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it – till you Fake it., installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladsto…
In a 1991 essay film about the assassinated Congolese independence leader, Raoul Peck explores the slipperiness of history and the archive.
Patrice Lumumba in Lumumba: Death of a Proph…
Seven decades of rabble-rousing voices from the Village Voice, chronicled in a new book by Tricia Romano.
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radi…
Revelatory songs of abandonment and abandon by the late Ethiopian composer and nun.
Souvenirs, by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Mississippi Records
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Soft numbness gives way to surprising politics in an
exhibition at Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, Pace Gallery, …
The artist’s new installation welcomes a submersion into
spatial experience.
Tiril Hasselknippe: Hyperstate, installation view. Courtesy Magenta Plains. Photo: John Muggenborg. ©…
Liberté, égalité, gastronomie: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Trân Anh Hùng’s latest film.
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie and …
In her new memoir, Lucy Sante finds gender euphoria.
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante, Penguin Press, 226 pages, $27
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Beauty, ugliness, an equalizing gaze: the artist channels the work of poet Wanda Coleman to share her vision of Los Angeles.
Cauleen Smith: The Wanda Coleman Songbook, installation view. Co…
Machismo and melodrama, strange passions and criminal lives"in his adopted home country, the filmmaker was resurrected.
Fernando Soler as QuintÃn Guzmán (far left) in The Daughter of …
Walls Have Ears, the band's trailblazing 1985 album, gets
its first official release.
Walls Have Ears, by Sonic Youth, Goofin' Records
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Some memories are just we…
Embodiment, ephemera, and radical causes: works from 1970 to 1990 by over one hundred UK women artists, on display at Tate Britain.
Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970"1990, in…
For those who come to San Francisco . . . David Schickele's docufiction portrayal of a young Nigerian, a city, and an epoch.
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alm…
All in the family: a PhD student visits India to film a documentary about queer life in Shayok Misha Chowdhury's vibrant and charming debut play.
Abrar Haque as Choton, Debashis Roy Chowdhu…
Is Anne Carson nice or happy? Right or wrong question?
Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson, New Directions, 191 pages, $17.95
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In May 2017, the New Yorker published a pro…
Before there was Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge's 1975 debut film presented a very different portrayal of high school teens.
Michele Manenti and Martha Coolidge in Not a Pretty Picture. Court…
In the Belgian artist and third-generation Holocaust survivor's transgressive use of Jewish identity, the power is in the puzzlement.
Stéphane Mandelbaum, installation view. Courtesy the D…
Five poetic stories in image and text reveal the ever-present power of nature, greed, friendship, and philosophical inquiry.
Amar Kanwar: The Peacock's Graveyard, installation view. Courtes…
The sound that time forgot: remembering the experimental
musician and filmmaker.
Phill Niblock. Photo: Daniel Efram.
1933"2024
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Twenty-three years ago, I bought…
A centennial showcase of the mid-twentieth-century street photographer's distinctive eye for the intimate, abstract, and impressionistic.
Centennial: Saul Leiter, installation view. Courtes…
