Test 2018 posts
Finding Birds Among the Ruins of an Historical Archive
In Petrit Halilaj’s current exhibition at the New Museum the artist again explores matters of excavation as a means to explore issues of nationality.
Cynthia Cruz
Art
A Romanian Artist Tackles Art and Freedom in Authoritarian Times
Geta Brătescu's work positions the artist as a creator of freedom even in oppressive times.
Art
Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
Art
Carol Rama's Resistant Desire
A survey of Rama's work at the New Museum shows an almost manic motion between ideas and styles — the Italian artist's way of defying reduction.
Art
A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.
Art
Hanne Darboven Reflects the Infinite Feeling of History
The artist's “Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983” ("Cultural History 1880–1983") is a seemingly endless archive that renders the viewer mute.
Art
The Beauty of a Museum Show that Feels Not Quite Finished
Kai Althoff’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts at the Museum of Modern Art provide questions rather than answers.
Art
Lost in an Art Historian’s Annals of 1960s–70s NYC
To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.
Art
Andrea Zittel's Sculptures for Survival
The artist's current exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery explores and interrogates what it means to be a participant in American culture.
Art
Seeing the Deterioration of Technology in Thomas Struth’s Photographs
BERLIN — Thomas Struth’s current exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is compact yet compelling.
Art
Finding Love and Community in Nicole Eisenman's Paintings
One thing that is immediately apparent in Al-Ugh-Ories, Nicole Eisenman's show at the New Museum, is her streak of resistance.
Music
Fatima al Qadiri's Poetry of Terror and Protest
Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”