Books
Bridget Riley’s Razzle-Dazzle Career
A first-ever biography of the pioneering British modernist charts the creative path of an intense and deeply sensitive painter.
Edward M. Gómez
Art
Rescuing Art Sites on the Endangered List
The American researcher Jo Farb Hernández has led the charge to preserve fast-deteriorating, self-taught artists’ environments — before they’re gone.
Art
A German Artist’s Notes From Underground
Mischa Leinkauf’s images of subterranean urban worlds are formally arresting and packed with metaphorical meaning.
Art
The Bold, Blessed Paintings of a Sharecropper’s Daughter
An exhibition showcases the graphically powerful work of Mary T. Smith — a self-taught artist from Mississippi — in a rare, in-depth survey.
Art
Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.
Art
A Gallery’s Eight Decades of Artistic Independence
Now celebrating its 80th anniversary, Manhattan’s Galerie St. Etienne brings a scholarly approach to a uniquely diverse lineup.
Art
A Painter’s Path from Bosnia to Florida’s Backwaters
Amer Kobaslija captures Florida’s lush, strange atmosphere while examining the expressive potential of oil paint’s luminous, elastic, viscous goo.
Art
A Showcase for Shintō’s Gods
An exhibition of rarely seen, ancient art explores the complex ideas and rich expressions of Japan’s indigenous religion.
Art
Miriam Cahn’s Alluring, Angry Art
If some of Cahn’s images are unexpected or unsettling, it is because, quite simply, they are the expressions of a very self-aware woman’s unapologetic point of view.
Art
Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.
Music
John and Yoko’s Wedding Album, Once an Oddity, Now an Icon
An unlikely element of Lennon and Ono’s late-1960s peace campaign was an aural selfie, ahead of its time.
Books
A Love Note to the Quirky South
Decades in the making, the late poet Jonathan Williams’s photo-filled travelogue captures the creative spirit of a region.