Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.

A member of the queer collective Grupo Chaclacayo, his transformational performances were a cry for gender equality and political freedom in Peru.

It’s refreshing to see a number of recent shows across the city highlighting work by Brazilian women, rectifying historical gaps.

Two movies at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival reflect on the onscreen representation of the Holocaust after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark Shoah.

Through regional music and dance Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca affirm as well as explore and subvert Brazilian identity.

Guadalupe Maravilla's first New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative.

Ortiz's radical approach to art led from unleashing of aggression through ritualistic performances to political engagement and the founding of El Museo del Barrio.

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.

Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would.

The small New York art fair celebrated its 26th edition with the works of 11 women artists.

In Calzolari's recent paintings, organic and metaphysical forces are one: vapors are rudimentary atmospheric gas particles, but they also signify wonder and bliss.

Abramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood.

Kaufman's sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line.

What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.

While I cheered at the idea that a largely forgotten woman Dadaist was finally getting her due, I couldn’t help but wonder why the art world’s recognition of Sophie Taeuber-Arp has been so spotty.

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

Jaider Esbell showed us that future biennials will need to look to art activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as authoring agents.

Acclaimed director Jane Campion returns to film with an all-star cast featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and more.

In a way, Solomon's photo series The Forgotten harks back to a time when viewers believed that pictures told it all.

As Jewish artists fled World War II, some settled in Brazil, where their resilience and desire for renewal shaped their art that looked hopefully to the future.

Many works take disruption and repetition as their themes, and many artists resurface in different sections, creating multiple affinities.

With films touching on protest in France, China’s one-child policy, and Indigenous life in Canada, the 2021 Currents program stays both culturally and politically forward-thinking.

Robust, voluptuous, and sexually frank, the works in Tête-à-Tête showcase Caland’s outré sense of humor and vivacity.

Director Malgorzata Szumowska uses fantasy to satirize the lives of the affluent in Poland’s official Oscar submission.

Dancing in Real Life makes a strong case for recognizing the Greek painter as a pioneer of queer art.

Here are some cartoons outside the mainstream, from a mischievously psychosexual short to an allegory for post-WWII Europe.

These indie thrillers revive classic noir tropes with fresh, distinct approaches.

Sergei Loznitsa's expansive filmography is a great entryway to films from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and more which grapple with the legacy of the Warsaw Pact.

Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.

These classics were produced during Czechoslovakia’s brief political thaw in the 1960s.

The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn't truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.

In its desire to avoid cliches, Nina Wu skips over some of the more complex fallout of sexual trauma.

Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.

The 2021 edition of the important film festival is open to viewers around the country.

Tsai Ming-liang's newly restored film Goodbye, Dragon Inn flips the notion of moviegoing as a sanctified experience.

Emphasizing obscured histories, Vento inspires hope that the biennial programs to come will be potent enough to raise some dust in Niemeyer’s drafty halls.

This year's online edition of the venerable festival features movies about mourning rituals, reenactments of family history, cult survivors, and more.

Director Alexander Nanau tells Hyperallergic how he got such incredible access to journalists and government officials for Collective.

Featuring a stunning series of watercolors based on Dante’s Inferno, Nogueira’s latest exhibition sheds new light on her gift for haunting evocations of the female body.

Get your popcorn ready. This year’s program includes highlights like Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films, ruminative queer romances, and incisive documentaries about US politics and Helen Keller’s activism.

Three of the Argentine director's films are now on the Criterion Channel, and they demonstrate how she complicates ideas of female agency and power.

With her New York debut on the horizon, the Afro-Brazilian artist, known for her seductive, textile-based sculptures, is finally, and rightfully, receiving international recognition.

Inspired by true events, Melina León’s debut drama is a captivating vision of unredeemed humanity.

In Lange's photography, human ingenuity and grace triumph over the unspeakable blows of the Great Depression and other social oppression, even when hope is in short supply.

In Radical Virtuosity, Genevieve Hyacinthe brilliantly reframes Mendieta’s celebrated works, yet for a book so rooted in race, the final analysis feels only half-full.

Edited by the late, great Anette Michelson and Kenneth White, the essays in Michael Snow refresh our notions of experimentation.

Rounding out our Sundance coverage, here’s a look at some of the most exciting visual arts-focused films that debuted at the festival.

Sky Hopinka’s rapturous feature-length debut, małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, elaborates on his previous explorations of Chinuk Wawa while hewing to a more linear structure.

Gomes, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, often works from home, where daily, mundane objects are not distinguished from sculptural pieces.

Kicking off today at Film at Lincoln Center, the series presents a body of work that’s particularly heartening when one considers the encroachments on freedom that Brazilian cinema must now confront.