Art
Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde
When White-dominated arts institutions would not offer them opportunities, Robert L. Douglas and other Louisville Black artists organized together to create their own art communities.
Natalie Haddad
Natalie Haddad is Reviews Editor at Hyperallergic and an art writer and historian. She holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California San Diego and has written extensively on modern and contemporary art.
Books
The Dreamlike Paths of Dialogue with a Somnambulist
The texts in Chloe Aridjis’s new collection of stories and essays unspool not via chronological order, but through the strange rationality of dreams.
Art
SWANA Women Artists Deserve Better
The exhibition Women Defining Women at LACMA suffers from poorly defined parameters and a weak understanding of its own premise.
Books
A Multi-Generational Gee's Bend Story, Told by One Quilt
Stitching Love and Loss narrates the history of the Pettway family, the community of Gee’s Bend, and the entwined tragedies of slavery and Indigenous dispossession.
Art
Jane Lackey’s String Theory
Lackey’s “cut paintings” bring to the forefront the often invisible or rarely acknowledged experiences of connection.
Art
William Edmondson’s Tombstone Blues
The self-taught artist, who carved gravestones for a living, is finally receiving institutional recognition.
Art
Rowan Renee Unearths Green-Wood Cemetery’s Forgotten Lives
The lots at the cemetery’s perimeter are marginal sites for people who, very likely, were marginalized during their lives.
Art
Artists Get Inside the “Glitch”
The glitch, perhaps, is that we thought technology, the earth, and the spirit were all separate things when really they all glide together.
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The Dark and Moody Humor of Judith Bernstein’s Paintings
Bernstein’s latest works are beset with a deathlike quality rarely seen in her earlier pieces, even ones that directly addressed death in war or genocide.
Art
A Gallery’s Safe Harbor From Anti-Blackness
With Come Home with Me, Gallery 2602 is actualizing the desire many of us have to share art with one another in a place where we can breathe fully.
Art
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Time passing has never been a subject Jim Dine has avoided; he has long made art about getting old.
Art
Can Geometric Abstraction Stay Fresh?
What singles out artist Don Voisine is his ability to remain a restless painter, capable of surprising his most ardent fans.