The miniseriesThis Is a Robberyis at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.
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Faya DayiTells Stories of Land Kinship in Drought-Ridden Ethiopia
Screening at New Directors/New Films, Jessica Beshir’s film floats in the space between documentary and poetry.
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A Data Artist’s Guide to Putting People (and Privacy) First
WithLiving In Data, Jer Thorp demonstrates the importance of enabling people to participate in the process of creating and telling the stories behind data.
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Psychedelic and Sardonic, Janiva Ellis’s Paintings Offer Visions of a Divided Nation
WithRATS, Ellis explores the twisted realities of American life.
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Rachel Cusk Intertwines Art with Healthy Skepticism
A fiercely odd, even unfashionably allegorical book,Second Placewould be disappointing if it weren’t so bafflingly good.
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Jessica Vaughn’s Cathartic Critiques of Office Culture
In Vaughn’s hands, “success” takes shape as a parade of etiquette, competition, and power.
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Resonant Adventures in Art and Intimacy From Larissa Pham
A memoir-in-essays,Pop Songis at its most satisfying when the author assembles an arsenal of visual artists to express the ineffable.
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Fred Eversley’s Joyful Light
Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena.
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Katherine Bradford’s Joy and Grief
In her “Mother Paintings,” Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.
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John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings
By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time.
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Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art
The four artists in the exhibition “Silent Thunder” display varying degrees of engagement with Buddhism — as a faith, an aesthetic choice, a school of philosophy, or a social phenomenon.
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Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death
There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise.