Art
Nowhere to Go in a Desert of Images
In Xaviera Simmon’s CODED exhibition, now on view at The Kitchen, there are a lot of intersections between the human, sexualized (and colored) body, and wide, visually monotonous land- and seascapes.
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
Figures of Steel that Embody Our Fears
Antony Gormley has consistently plied a practice that's about articulations and permutations of the human body, often fabricating his forms in materials that can withstand the vicissitudes of the natural environmental.
Art
Performances that Probe the Potential of Being
When I was in graduate school, one of the ideas favored by feminist and queer scholars and students of continental philosophy was the notion of "becoming," as conveyed by Gilles Deleuze.
Art
An Artist Colors Over Our September 11 Wounds
The Life of Forms exhibition, now on view at Mary Boone gallery is a relatively standard summer show smorgasbord, but one artist who stands out to me is Doug Ashford.
Art
Trying (and Failing) to Make Painting Great Again
Here’s the thing about the Make Painting Great Again exhibition at Canada Gallery: I honestly dislike it.
Art
A Black Painter Who Found Aesthetic Liberty in the 1960s
LOS ANGELES — At first sight of the Green April exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, it is fairly obvious that Sam Gilliam is a marvelous painter who is sensitive to color and hue, shade and saturation, and able to create vibrantly interstitial zones where an object is not quite itself and not yet
Opinion
This Company "Clones" Masterpieces
Would you like to have a Vermeer or a Caravaggio in your living room above the sofa? Maybe a van Gogh or a Degas painting would be a better match for your drapery and credenza?
Art
A Brooklyn Museum App Encourages Visitors to Ask Questions
In May, the Brooklyn Museum launched the new Android version of its ASK app, a mobile application that enables visitors to interact with the museum’s audience engagement staff in real time.
Art
From Stitched Symbols to Painted Shadows, Connecting Two Artists’ Surreal Sensibilities
Two multicolored rocks, placed side by side, cast long shadows that lie flat before bending at the walls they intersect, as shadows typically do. But that’s all that’s typical.
Art
An Archive on Homelessness and the Housing Crisis Brought to Life
Gentrification and related issues of rising rents, the paucity of affordable housing, and the astronomical gap between the wealthy and the poor have been appearing in public discourse at an increasing rate, in exhibitions, in public art projects, in organized protests.
Art
An Archive on Homelessness and the Housing Crisis Brought to Life
Gentrification and related issues of rising rents, the paucity of affordable housing, and the astronomical gap between the wealthy and the poor have been appearing in public discourse at an increasing rate, in exhibitions, in public art projects, in organized protests.
Art
Nature’s Dark Edge
To get to Y Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you have to climb five long flights of rickety stairs.