Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’
Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
Art
Night in Hong Kong
In the wake of Hong Kong's protests is a painful stillness.
What Nomadland gets wrong about gig workers
It feels less like artistic license than a betrayal of workers’ reality.
Review: Jungjin Lee's Echo
Lee transforms seemingly undefined tracts of land into surfaces for her own desires.
Issac Lam's photos are dreamlike tributes to Hong Kong youth culture
The photographer wants to restore an elusive attitude that once permeated Hong Kong culture.
Review: Portrait of Hong Kong
A masterful reanimation of Fan Ho's classic photographs that helps us think through contemporary concerns.
Review: Rinko Kawauchi's Halo
Few photographers have apprehended the sublime as masterfully as Rinko Kawauchi.
Mysteries along the Hong Kong-China border
Terry Ng reimagines the border as a world of its own, both familiar and surreal at the same time.
