Art
Drawing as Refuge
Pete Schulte's drawings at first seem to be easily apprehended and quickly digested, but they demand a deeper reflection on choices and motives.
Thomas Micchelli
Books
When Trauma Becomes Art
Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts delves into the links between violence and silence, art and terror, and how pioneering women made them into art.
Art
Answering the Colonizers of Modernism
The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.
Art
The Gnarly, Sassy Minimalism of Tom Doyle
Doyle's sculpture offers an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of pure form, but without a hint of nostalgia.
Art
Strokes of Conflict
The exhibition Wars at David Nolan evokes political and personal violence as facts of modern life.
Art
An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel
An odd pairing of drawings by Eva Hesse and sculptures by John Chamberlain sets up unintended comparisons between two artists who otherwise seem to share only an ingrained rebelliousness.
Art
Piero Manzoni and the Reinvention of Art
Manzoni’s work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
Art
The Searing Beauty of Nancy Spero
With their free interplay of image and text, Spero’s Codex Artaud and the even more ambitious Notes in Time are nothing less than a personal redefinition of the nature and meaning of visual art.
Art
Visions of Home, from Dream Memories to Trump Country
The disparity between what we expect from domesticity and what lurks beneath the surface generates a finely wrought tension that coils throughout this show.
Art
Lucian Freud’s Mountains of Flesh
Freud’s forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
Art
Encountering “The Fulbright Triptych”
A rare sighting of an elusive painting.