Art
Photographs that Aestheticize Human Suffering
The people in Alex Majoli's strobe-lit images are treated as metaphors instead of themselves.
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 Cautionary Tales of Dead Birds Fashioned from Textiles
Tamara Kostianovsky's exhibition at Y Gallery features sculptures of butchered fowl made from salvaged fabric.
Art
When the Language Meant to Prop Up Art Makes It Fall Over
In Practice: Material Deviance, the group exhibition currently occupying the quirky basement space at SculptureCenter, can't quite live up to its curatorial statement.
Performance
A Play Models the Human Cost of Our Economic Ecosystem
Labyrinth Theater Company’s Dolphins and Sharks centers on the necessity of wage labor and the human relations our system engenders.
News
A Painting and News Report Land a Turkish Artist in Prison
Zehra Dogan, a journalist and painter has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison for making a painting that depicts the destruction of the Turkish city of Nusaybin by government forces.
Art
Finding Darkness, Pain, and Jubilance Under the Rainbow
At one of the few black-owned galleries in Harlem, a new exhibition of works by Delano Dunn is challenging, surprising, troubling, and complex.
Art
An Artist Teaches Us How to Breathe Under Duress
Last month, I participated in Shaun Leonardo’s "I Can't Breathe," a public, participatory workshop and performance that takes the form of a self-defense class.
Art
Scouting Out the Armory Show, a Theme Park for the Wealthy
Amid the big, blue chip baubles, there are flickers of truly powerful and personal work at the latest edition of the vast Armory Show art fair.
Art
A James Baldwin Documentary Raises Questions About America that May Never Be Answered
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.
Art
Aiming to Disrupt Ads in New York City, Artworks Instead Blend In
Public Art Fund's Commercial Break places interventions by 23 artists on advertising screens around the city.
Art
The Loneliness of Luis Barragán's Domestic Spaces
James Casebere's latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.
Art
Broken Collages Capture the Secret Lives of Things
Charles Platt's exhibition encrypted messages at Freight+Volume gallery uses personal things to reconstruct a narrative, or at least parts of a story through which a life might be glimpsed.