Constructivism’s influence in Soviet-era film posters favored cubist-like aesthetics that turned to electrifying colors, shapes, and lines drawn not by laws of perspective but by rulers and compasses.
In her autobiography Still Flowering, Judy Chicago also offers a plainspoken, powerful discussion about the growth of feminist art.
Vol. II of Peter Weiss’ novel and documentary history, The Aesthetics of Resistance, laments struggles lost as Nazism and WWII take hold.
The New Woman Behind the Camera, an exhibition of midcentury women photographers, captures the ways they documented a changing world and reimagined their place within it.
Can the enigmatic Nighthawks artist Edward Hopper be captured in graphic art form? Sergio Rossi and Giovanni Scarduelli give it a go.
Filmmakers Jeffrey Wolf and Sam Pollard talk about artist Bill Traylor, born into slavery, whose works define this singular creative voice in American art.
Forgeries of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau’s art are but a symptom of a greater injustice in Jamie Kastner’s documentary, There Are No Fakes.
Photographer Dawoud Bey’s exhibit at the Whitney (now until 3 October) represents Blackness as an integral part of the American experience.
Postcards from the milieu of the pandemic shutdown. A photo essay.
‘Latinx Photography in the United States’ makes clear how many of the struggles from generations past continue to this day.
The distinct identity of Arab Strap, as an instrumental and lyrical unit, is matched by the visual aspect. The band’s artwork walks a sure-footed tightrope of casual appearance to deliberate effect.
Amani Willett's A parallel Road shows how controlling people's right to travel is central to the racist mindset.
