At this year’s Sundance International Film Festival, more than half the feature-length movies were made by directors who identify as women.
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Graham Nickson’s Empathic Formalism
Nickson’s interests lie in the individual’s place in a world shaped by immensities of land and water, sky and cloud.
Visiting Peru’s Terrorism Museum on the Eve of a Constitutional Crisis
Peruvian history is a contentious subject, and the authorities in charge of writing its first drafts should not be taken at their word.
Mildred Howard’s Art of Giving
She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.
What to See in This Year’s Sundance Film Festival
In myriad ways, coming as it does in January, Sundance sets the stage for US cinema through the rest of the year.
What Makes a Good Arts District?
Along Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row, development has pushed out several art spaces during the last decade, resulting in a “manufactured” arts district.
Unmasking the Power of Lucha Libre
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas shows that the performative wrestling genre is about more than the wrestlers or their costumes.
The Founding Mother of Southern California’s Chicano Drag Scene
A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano performers.
Chloë Bass Disarms With Beauty
The multiform artist quietly coaxes us to see the world as a means to look inward.
How Has the Supply Chain Crisis Affected Artists?
Labor shortages, stranded shipping containers, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have forced artists to come up with creative solutions.
Is Body Horror the New Intimacy?
While sex is clearly in its cultural flop era, intimacy with ourselves and with others is being deftly portrayed in body horrors.
For Julie Buffalohead, Animals Express What Words Cannot
There’s something very funny — and unsettling — about Buffalohead’s paintings of animals engaged in human situations.