Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions
The artist’s final film tested her belief that love could be stronger than the will to power.
Dec 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans
Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.
Dec 12, 2016 / Photo Essay / Meta Krese and Jošt Franko
John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena
Danny Lyon’s Drama of Solitude Danny Lyon’s Drama of Solitude
How did he take such profoundly empathetic photographs?
Sep 6, 2016 / Ratik Asokan
Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art
His pictures generate a perceptual confusion that might best represent where we stand with technology today.
Aug 23, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
Aug 8, 2016 / Pop & Circumstance / Joshua Clover
Out of Sight, Top of Mind Out of Sight, Top of Mind
A new book conveys the powerful role photography plays in sports. But the photographers are still something of a mystery.
Jul 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ian F. Blair
Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery
A “look” is a kind of instant style: quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view.
Jun 29, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ricky D’Ambrose
Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians
Several new media projects are re-envisioning a region long stereotyped as backward and ignorant.
Jun 25, 2016 / Photo Essay / Layne Amerikaner
15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher 15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher
One of the creations of her and her husband’s artistic partnership was the seemingly perfect fusion of their visions.
Jun 22, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl