Art
Artists and Advocacy Groups Join Forces to Transform Politics
The Forward Union Fair, a gathering of advocacy groups, artists, and civic engagement organizations, took place this year with a new sense of urgency.
Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former editor for Hyperallergic, and is now a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and the New York Times. He received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism in 2020 and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022.
Art
The Infinite Worlds Made from Pins
Tamiko Kawata's current exhibition offers a metaphor to help us grapple with how meaning is made.
Film
Garry Winogrand and the End of an Era
A complex portrait of the photographer emerges in the documentary All Things are Photographable directed by Sasha Waters Freyer.
Interview
At This Year’s São Paulo Biennial the Curator Prioritizes Feeling Over Discourse
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro discusses the impact of rejecting overwrought political themes in a show that welcomes everyone to slow down and focus on their own experience of the art.
Art
Making Room to Take In the Depth of John Akomfrah's "Vertigo Sea"
The three-channel film is a story of how humans are ultimately reductionists in our relationship to the ecology — in a world that feels like it is too much for us, we aim to cut it down to a digestible size.
Art
An Exhibition that Frustrates Our Grasp of Abstraction
Though Out of Easy Reach has a unifying theme, it presents a variety of tastes and approaches in a way that feels like ungainly curation which ultimately does not clarify how these women artists now steer the conversation about abstraction.
Art
Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life
Mel Chin's work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.
Art
Brooklyn's Soldier Angel Inspires a Monument to Resistance
“Persistent Resistance” consists of a central speckled, decorative column that looks like a Rorschach ink blot that’s been stretched into a pillar.
Art
Blackness, Portraiture, and the Weight of Identity
Jeff Sonhouse's portraits provide a vision beyond the old identity models, making Blackness constitute a set of keys that let us onto an entirely different playground.
Art
Measured and Visually Musical, Two Artists Harmonize
In this two-person exhibition, Shiferaw and Melake meet one another in a space of genuine conversation.
Art
The Question of Art's Relation to Racial Equity in Mississippi
A new initiative undertaken at the Mississippi Museum of Art wants to have "more conversations about race." I didn't fully understand the need for such a program until I visited the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
Performance
Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.