Books
When Will Ralph Eugene Meatyard Get the Retrospective He Deserves?
Meatyard’s use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have yet to fully address.
John Yau
Art
The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross
The exhibition Mimi Gross: Among Friends, 1958-1963 helps to set the record straight: Gross was a strong, confident artist when she met Red Grooms at the age of 18, and that her work continued to grow right up to their marriage in 1964.
Books
How Frederic Tuten Became a Writer
Each chapter of Tuten's memoir precisely details a specific moment of realization, however wayward and, at times, harrowing.
Art
The Rediscovery of Robert Duran
A new show provides a glimpse of Duran's restless, astute nature and his willingness to explore different formal possibilities.
Art
A Painter for Our Times
Carnwath's paintings are true barometers of the world after the 2016 presidential election.
Art
In Judith Linhares’s Sinless World
Linhares has become a pioneer who paved the way for a generation of women artists to develop their own alternative worlds.
Art
Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
Books
Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
Art
Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory
Between 1994 and 2011, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Enigmatic Views
Sultan is both the artist and the artisan — a view that goes against the grain characterizing art as a purely conceptual activity, a form of entrepreneurship.
Books
A Writer's Choice to Be Borderline Invisible
Small presses and editions remind us that that we're free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion.
Art
James Siena Changes His Approach
Siena’s paintings and drawings have become a maze of marks that he seems in no hurry to escape. They are odes to anonymous labor.