Art
Seeing What the Fish Might See
The work of cut paper by Georgia Russell might be a vision of what I fish would see as it lies gasping for breath in the bottom of a net.
Seph Rodney
Art
Erasing the Binaries that Attempt to Contain Our Bodies
The body glistens. It is naked. It is torqued so that the face faces one bearing and the belly and genitalia faces the opposite. The translucent surface that skins the figure gleams wet.
Art
In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period
The medieval epoch shouldn't only be envisioned through a European lens.
Art
This Year, the Spring/Break Art Show Is Less Fanciful but Still Worth It
Spring/Break feels a bit different this year, which might have something to do with its location in the United Nations complex in midtown.
Art
An Artist Illuminates Our Need to be Seen and Recognized
The indispensability of recognition is simultaneously made both more urgent and more complicated when you realize, as Yelaine Rodriguez does, that we are mutable, never sufficing to be just one person.
Art
A Doll’s House that Verges on Being Livable
What kind of house is this, that ping pongs between two- and three-dimensional representations that are merely fantasy or merely decorative and pieces that have clear utilitarian use?
Art
Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
Art
Drawing Meaning Out of Art with Conversation
The exhibition owes its title to a famous essay by philosopher Édouard Glissant, and it asks some big questions about how artists convey the substance of their art.
Art
Mesmerized and Saddened by the Illusion of Sunlight
This is the kind of work we will share when we have so laid waste to the planet that most of what the world will have access to is this kind of simulacra.
Art
Stories in Abundance at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair
One of the most marvelous aspects of the Outsider Art Fair is the way in which much the work displayed is steeped in stories.
Books
Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.
Books
Photojournalism in Nashville During the Civil Rights Era
A book of photos of Nashville at the height of the Civil Rights Movement conveys a story of promises both fulfilled and denied.