Art
“I Want to Paint Every Color in the World”
By rejecting monochrome and the grid’s guarantee of homogeneity, Stanley Whitney has transformed aspects of Minimalism and Color Field painting into something all his own.
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Art
Falsehood and Justice
Truth is beaten to death.
Art
Urban Ecological Consciousness at Wave Hill
By providing more information than viewers might process, the show's dense, small-font text highlights an aesthetic challenge that confronts social practice art.
Art
Racism and Erasure in Fred Wilson's Unearthed Histories
Wilson’s explicit reference to Africa expands the global network through which both cultural influences and African bodies were transmitted.
Art
Nostalgia and Reality in Picasso, Schiele, and Klimt
The drawings of Klimt and Schiele, in contrast to those of Picasso, are graphic evidence of an artist grappling with what is directly in front of him.
Books
A New Feminist Poetry or a Trudge through Patriarchy
It’s not that Women of Resistance isn’t an excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood; it’s that the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood is a slog through all the crap that’s been piled on top of us.
In Brief
Palestinian Cultural Center Destroyed by Israeli Military in Recent Attacks
The Al-Meshal Cultural Center in Gaza was destroyed by Israeli F-16s this week.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, Maine, New York, and Ohio.
Art
The Halcyon Days of Postcolonial Mali Through the Lens of Malick Sidibé
The artist's candid event photographs demand the spotlight in his current exhibition in New York.
Art
µTopian Dinners and Dining With the Enemy
Detroit-based experimental theater ensemble The Hinterlands hosts a series of uTopian Dinners, forging connections between artists around the world.
Film
The Banality of Capitalism in China
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing's documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.
Interview
Leonardo Had Help: Oxford Art Historian Asserts New Attribution for 'Salvator Mundi'
Matthew Landrus believes the painting, which Louvre Abu Dhabi bought at auction for $450.3 million in 2017, better resembles the work of Bernardino Luini, an assistant in Da Vinci's studio.