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For decades, Janet Werner has transformed found photographs into fictional women whose identities remain deliberately open. In conversation, she reflects on painting, collage, subjectivity, art history, teaching, and the necessity of simply continuing to work.
The first time I saw Janet’s paintings in person, I found myself doing something I knew I probably shouldn’t: trying to figure out who the women were.… read more.
As a fan of Hacks on HBO, I felt that its final season lived up to the high expectations that other Hacks fans and I had set for the series finale. As some like to put it, the series “landed the plane” with its fifth and final season. Consistent with all prior seasons, Jean Smart’s role as Deborah Vance in Hacks is hilarious while emphasizing the series’ emotional integrity.… read more.
Once best known for being Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s wife, Frida Kahlo has become a superstar in the past few decades. Her image can be found everywhere. She’s on socks, purses, jewelry, and even in film. Similar to names such as Madonna, Picasso, and Beyoncé, many recognize the world-renowned artist from just her first name: Frida.… read more.
Graduating from NYU Tisch in Manhattan’s famous Radio City Music Hall already felt slightly unreal. The scale of the space, the ceremonial atmosphere, the transition it represented—it created the strange sensation of standing both inside your own life and outside of it at the same time. But what made this year’s Tisch Salute especially memorable was hearing Laura Dern speak to the Class of 2026 not simply as a celebrity guest, but as an artist reflecting honestly on uncertainty, intuition, and creative risk.… read more.
The film Leonora in the Morning Light (2025), based on Mexican novelist Elena Poniatowska’s novel Leonora, tells the story of British-born painter Leonora Carrington who was involved in the Surrealists in the 1930s. Played by Olivia Vinall, the film focuses largely on Leonora’s inner demons, notably her descent into madness that resulted in electro-shock treatments in Spain and her unsaid PTSD years later in Mexico.… read more.
Playwright and director Aleshea Harris demonstrates what it means to authentically showcase Black women in media in Is God Is. The genre-bending Southern Gothic thriller, Is God Is, spotlights female rage in the new 2026 screen adaptation. The story was first performed in 2018 as an award-winning Off-Broadway play, centering Black female rage as the key emotion that drives the narrative.… read more.