Art Review
Hortensia Mi Kafchin Refuses a Monolithic Trans Identity
The artist blends personal portraits that address but cannot be reduced to trans identity with utopian visions of what humanity could be.
Reviews
Art Review
Stop Putting Art on Miami Beach
The mere spectacle of Es Devlin’s revolving library on the sand betrays its aim of engaging us in the act of reading.
Art Review
Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep
The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.
Art Review
Basking in the Light of Raúl de Nieves’s Stained Glass Tarot
With its spiritual and religious connotations, de Nieves's installation transforms Pioneer Works from a creative space to a contemplative one.
Book Review
Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art
Writing one of the first comprehensive biographies of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.
Book Review
Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
Art Review
KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era
His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop.
Art Review
Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella.
Art Review
We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
Art Review
R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.
Art Review
A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
Art Review
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.