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.
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The current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Masterpieces & Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait, does a few remarkable things, perhaps the most remarkable being that it begins to turn the institution inside out, to make not only its collection available to the visitor, but also the policies and proc
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The best word I can use to describe the feeling conveyed by John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery is fey.
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase is all about the funk.
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Gateway exists in a starkly commercial concourse that connects several corporations, including the New Jersey television network and Prudential Insurance — connecting all of them to Newark’s Penn Station.
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Art exhibitions concerned with politics are very much of the moment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here’s the thing about the Make Painting Great Again exhibition at Canada Gallery: I honestly dislike it.
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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
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?