Performance
Reaching for Transcendence with Voice and Light
In Rashaad Newsome's "Running," a vocal tradition reaches expressive new heights and plumbs emotional depths.
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.
Interview
After the Northern California Wildfires, an Artist Pieces Together a Life
A photographer lost her home and studio in the Atlas fire; now she is taking stock of the future and making work with remnants she salvaged from the ashes.
Art
Artworks from Two Museums Share a Space, But Not a Conversation
An exhibition joins artworks from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and Studio Museum in Harlem. While an astute idea, there's a sterility to this show that's underpinned by an uninspired curation.
Art
At TEFAF New York, Conspicuous Luxury Meets Exciting Art History
The experiential value of encountering old master paintings amid the trappings of luxury.
Art
Playing with the Privilege to Make Art About Anything
Dominique Duroseau's exhibition shows us what black bodies look like when "glamoured" by a racist imagination.
Art
Grappling with the Hudson River School
In an exhibition at the former home of Frederic Edwin Church, a key member of the movement, Teresita Fernández reimagines the legacy of American landscape painting.
Art
Inventive, Mysterious Paintings that Exceed Expectations
Jeff Sonhouse's exhibition at Tilton Gallery is visually rewarding and acutely intelligent.
Art
Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music
Biggers's current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
Art
In Chris Ofili's Latest, Self-Denial and the Fantasy of Paradise
The show evokes a prelapsarian aesthetic world from which viewers — following the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden — are barred.
Art
At ArtTable, a Talk About the Role of Visual Art in Cities
This week at the New School, ArtTable is holding a panel discussion for its Annual Leadership Series.
Art
Inspired by Indian Ragas, an Installation of Sound and Light Heightens the Senses
At the MELA Foundation Dream House, Jung Hee Choi's Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI seduces, disorients, and transforms.
Art
Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies
Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.