Art
Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
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
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.
Art
Cordy Ryman’s Stubborn Joy
Ryman’s sculpture embodies DIY aesthetics raised to a high level of sophistication while remaining modest and self-effacing.
Art
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.”
Art
Surrounded by Spirits
Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings.
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Halsey Hathaway’s Impure Abstractions
No matter how optical a color may become, our experience of it is — to state the obvious — visceral.
Art
Dona Nelson Stands Alone
The dizzying effect of Nelson’s two-sided paintings brings to mind the sensory overload of living in a city.
Art
Lured by Two Contemporary Masters
Long after I left Robert Grosvenor and David Novros at Paula Cooper, certain works floated up in my memory, calling me to return.