Strike Diary

By Rona Lorimer

MARCH 2023 | Field Notes

It is as if everyone is asking themselves when the violence will really start. This was the same in the demonstrations about the cost-of-living crisis in October. People were calm, especially in unions like SUD, they weren’t the least concerned about any hierarchization of protesters, nor were they scared of the police.

Tobi Kahn: Formation: Images of the Body

By Douglas Dreishpoon

JUNE 2022 | ArtSeen

Kahn has painted in the fertile gap between representation and abstraction for more than forty years: landscapes, seascapes, flowers, cells, and human bodies distilled into evocative images. An ethos unites Kahn with kindred modernists—Hilma af Klint, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, Arthur Dove and Albert Pinkham Ryder, Rothko and Barnett Newman—who courted ambiguity as a pictorial language of equivalence.

Yevgenia Belorusets’s War Diary

By John Domini

FEB 2023 | Books

War Diary mounts an unrelenting assault on civilized comforts.

What Are White People So Afraid Of? Claudia Rankine’s Help

By Alexis Clements

MARCH 2022 | Theater

Alexis Clements reflects on a trio of works by Claudia Rankine—an essay, a book, and a new play starting March 15 at The Shed—dissecting how they circle a question that has caught Rankine’s, and the zeitgeist’s, attention: why is it so hard for white people to confront their whiteness?