Art Review
vanessa german’s Shrine to Forgotten Black Girls
In new sculptures that vibrate with color and movement, the artist vivifies the stories of the girls who attempted to escape from a Louisville detention center in 1913.
Natalie Weis
Natalie Weis is a writer and art critic based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her interests include emerging artists working on the periphery — both geographically and in their chosen mediums.
Guide
12 Art Books to Kick Off Summer
A novel lampooning the art world, Megan O’Grady’s meditation on art and living, the man who defined color in the dictionary, Nan Goldin’s tender photo essay, and more.
Book Review
Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art
The photographer, who has been the subject of controversy at times in her career, discusses her approach to life in her new book, Art Work.
Guide
Five New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
The fall art season starts with a bang, with Man Ray at The Met, understated gems like Lisa Corinne Davis at Miles McEnery, and more.
Art Review
The Past and Future of Boucher’s Four Seasons
Flora Yukhnovich translates the iconic series into a digital-age fantasia while pointing to the original abundance just outside the Frick Collection’s walls.
Art Review
The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art
A survey of the LA artist’s work proves that the issues she began grappling with in the 1970s are not past threats, but hauntingly present ones.
Book Review
How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.
Art
The Surreal Pathos of Charles Steffen’s Portraits
After suffering a nervous breakdown, the late Chicago artist began to make his surreal graphite and colored pencil portraits on found paper.
Art
Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage
Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.
Art
Kathia St. Hilaire Collages the Complex History of Haiti
Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices.
Art
There’s Something Toxic About Megan Bickel’s Landscapes
Knowledge, visual perception, and the disruption of both by new technologies are at the heart of artist’s multimedia paintings.
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.