Art Review
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds
His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art.
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Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture
One of the youngest Abstract Expressionists, the artist charted an independent path guided by the beauty and intricacy of cellular structures.
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Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry
A show of his works from 1964–1978 focuses on the artist’s transformation and on his wife, poet Musa McKim, as a principal supporter and source of inspiration.
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Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry
He emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.
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Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology
She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist.
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Nicola Florimbi’s Paintings Are Unsettling and Necessary
Her depictions of individuals in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment represent one of many engaging paradoxes.
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David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.
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The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh
In the artist's paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?
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Mary Frank Creates Her Own Pantheon
Across sculptures and works on paper, her subjects are self-sustaining survivors who have not lost their capacity for tenderness.
Guide
15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye captures quietude, Seydou Keïta documents a revolution, Renée Green compiles an autoethnography, and much more.
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Édouard Glissant’s Museum-as-Archipelago
An exhibition of his collection finds provisional alliances between artists, rather than reiterating established hierarchies.