Art
A Rescue Mission for Venezuelan Modernism
A number of significant Venezuelan artists, whose work is focused on improvisational methods and art’s material nature, are virtually unknown in the US.
John Yau
Books
Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
Art
Eleanor Ray’s Sacred Spaces
There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray’s paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
Books
Digging Into Memory and Time
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Art
A Dozen Memorable Exhibitions from 2018
Just because most museums in America are still asleep at the wheel, it doesn’t mean all is lost.
Art
The One and Only Jenny Snider
Snider easily qualifies for such categories as “neglected” and “overlooked,” but her work cannot be contained by these terms.
Art
The Parallel Worlds of Philip Guston and Saul Steinberg
Guston and Steinberg are unclassifiable figures who satirized political figures, artists, poseurs, and American consumerism.
Art
Mark Grotjahn Checks All the Boxes
One or two of the paintings in Grotjahn's latest show might be interesting to look at, but a giant gallery space full of them becomes overbearing and tedious.
Art
Richard Prince’s Dorky White Anger
These are works you do not scrutinize or reflect upon because there is really not much to examine, much less think about.
Art
Refusing Painting’s Obsolescence
My admiration for Stanely Whitney’s resoluteness has increased over the years, as well as my sense of his growing authority as a masterful colorist.
Art
Melissa Meyer’s Urban Vision
Meyer has turned Pollock’s all-over painting on its head.
Art
Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages
Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.