Review

A Cuban political thriller that leaves politics off-screen.

Offering open access to essays, lectures, and performances by contemporary artists and scholars during the pandemic.

A collection of texts by and about the groundbreaking choreographer and filmmaker.

Cultural hybridity and displacement between East and West.

The poet Anne Waldman leads a global musical collaboration.

“Are you in pain?”

The first words spoken in Nina Menkes’s 1991 film, Queen of Diamonds, treated to a recent 4k restoration, slice through minutes of opening silence.

Capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable. In the spring of 2020, the world began experiencing this fact more acutely than ever, as humankind struggled to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a career spanning over two decades, Wayne Koestenbaum has copped to a lot.

Bernadette Mayer’s Memory was never meant to be a book.

“You look really different than your picture.” This skewering statement is delivered at the outset of a doomed Tinder date by Anne, the impish protagonist of Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft.

Mexico City’s sonidero scene finally gets the documentary it deserves.

Narrativizing everyday experiences of the pandemic in New York City.

Situating a recent history of feminist art.

3D-printing face shields to combat the shortage of PPE for hospital workers.

The composer and multimedia artist on raising awareness of the Asian experience during the pandemic.

A novel that avoids being a ripped-from-the-headlines sellout and offers an intelligent tale about the lives that new technologies mediate.

A new history of Surrealist women artists.

The detritus of a filmmaking career becomes an immersive work of autofiction.

Designing public rituals to commemorate the North Star’s eventual transition.

A uniquely vile cast of characters, ecological disaster, and a motherless daughter who finds strength in the unexpected.