Books
Six Art Books to Read This April
The role of dreams in Latin American art, Gertrude Abercrombie’s homegrown surrealism, essays on Celia Paul, new catalogs and monographs, and more.
Lisa Yin Zhang
Lisa Yin Zhang is Associate Editor at Hyperallergic, based in Queens, New York.
Art
New York City Shows We Love Right Now
The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself.
Art Review
Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol
The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.
Satire
Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions
The policy is the museum’s newest attempt to shift its financial burden onto its lowest-ranking staff and the public.
Satire
You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”
Much like the iconic piece, a suite of five “never-before-seen” works tackles big emotions.
Art
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler are among the artists who are taking us off the path of the everyday and into the inexplicable this week.
Art Review
An Artist Captures Life’s Relentless Too-Muchness
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you.
Art
Five Shows to See in New York City Right Now
Nick Cave leaves behind his Soundsuits, Ericka Beckman reimagines a fairy tale, American Artist explores the sci-fi world of Octavia E. Butler, and more.
Art Review
How Do You Paint Language?
A group show curated by Hilton Als meditates on words in the visual arts, but wields silence in ways that verge on obstinate obscurity.
Art
Five New York City Shows to See This Week
From Norman Bluhm’s reinvented abstraction to the history of Barbie at the Museum of Arts and Design, we’re looking at a diverse array of art this week.
Art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
“The Gates” was an artwork within an artwork, inscribing the populist impulse of Central Park into 7,500+ neon orange armatures with billowing fabric.
Books
10 Art Books for Your March Reading List
Delve into Lucy Lippard’s short fictions, Tamara Lanier’s indelible memoir, The White Pube’s tales of absurdity in the art world, new perspectives on Mucha, and more.