Art
Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief
In her “Mother Paintings,” Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.
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.
Art
John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings
By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time.
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John Giorno's Beautifully Disgruntled Poem-Paintings
Giorno sets up your expectations and then pulls the rug out.
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Clare Grill’s Untranslatable Paint
Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change.
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Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
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A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.
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Marilyn Lerner Shifts Gears, Again
Lerner’s new works evoke an asymmetrical kaleidoscopic hum, as geometric forms and multiple hues dance around each other.
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An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions
Derek Boshier’s commitment to being a witness to the catastrophes and jarring discrepancies of daily living has contributed to his near-invisibility in New York.
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Matt Bollinger’s Working-Class Elegy
Bollinger is a major artist chronicling a substantial sector of American life.
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Cordy Ryman’s Stubborn Joy
Ryman’s sculpture embodies DIY aesthetics raised to a high level of sophistication while remaining modest and self-effacing.
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So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
Books
The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism
“Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”