Art
Pulling the Caribbean into Conceptual Focus
Six artists provide distinct ways of seeing the Caribbean in its proper orientation.
Seph Rodney
Art
The Urgency and Resonance of Chakaia Booker
The intentionality of Booker's abstraction gives me the impetus to discuss something about the current zeitgeist that’s been on my mind for a while.
Film
Call My Agent and the Crisis at Work
The French television program does a good job exploring how people cope with work-related drama and its impact on relationships.
Art
Shahzia Sikander Draws the Immeasurability of Women
The artist uses her technical and artistic gifts to render a clear vision of women who defy stereotypes.
Art
Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect
Art fairs always seem to privilege and fete consumptive behavior. But they also give me an opportunity to reconnect, to revisit, to see an artist's work, and share the brilliance of my community.
Art
Breathing More Deeply With Art in the Hudson River Valley
The second edition of the Upstate Art Weekend offered glimpses of some of the myriad flavors of art in the Hudson River Valley.
Art
Painterly Visions of Zimbabwe Emerge in Soho
In this small art exhibition, the rich figural painting tradition of this southern African nation shines through.
Books
Art! Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are!
In Art Hiding in New York, you can explore the art all around a city that can't seem to get enough of it.
Art
On Grieving and Mourning With Art
Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.
Art
Michael Rakowitz Makes a Life Out of Fragments
Rakowitz has installed at the Wellin a partial reconstruction of “Room H” within the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
Art
With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
Art
An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy
The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade.