The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history.
Faye Hirsch
Faye Hirsch is an art historian and critic who chairs the MFA program in Art+Design, Purchase College SUNY. She is co-writing a book about Skowhegan with Ingrid Schaffner, to be published by Dancing Foxes Press.
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A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
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Nikolai Astrup’s Enchanted Norway
There is not a hint of psychological trauma in Astrup’s art, despite the parallels in his own experience to that of his countryman Edvard Munch.
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A Feminist Take on Medieval Statuary
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee’s ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.