Art
Required Reading
This week, a history of Porgy and Bess, talking to Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald, and Lorna Simpson, history of the Art Institute of Chicago's lions, otters chasing a butterfly, and more.
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Yoko Ono, More Urgent Than Ever
At the Everson Museum in upstate New York, a mini-retrospective highlights the timeliness of the artist’s enduring humanistic and nature-focused themes.
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Damien Hirst, Turning In Circles
Hirst has been an erratic artist from the beginning, just as likely to fail as to succeed.
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Paintings with a Retinal Buzz
In Relative Brightness the canvas transforms into a rippling, luminous field of ever-shifting optical sensations.
Books
Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl
Schjeldhal moves quickly to characterize an artist, like a cat pouncing on his prey.
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The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist
Josiah McElheny's glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.
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A Painter's Dissonant Geometry
Gary Petersen is a highly intelligent painter, which is to say he has absorbed a lot of art history and, more importantly, is at ease with it.
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A Forgotten Painter and Her Visionary Abstraction
During her lifetime, Sonia Gechtoff was feted on the West Coast and for many years showed her work in New York, but the art world has yet to adequately address her achievement.
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Two Artists Use Weather as a Metaphor for Hong Kong's Protests
These solo shows from Luke Ching Chin Wai and South Ho Siu Nam draw parallels between the typhoons and showers of these regions and the unpredictability of authoritarian policies and resulting civilian uprisings.
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Designing a Sculptural Synthetic Skin
Holly Hendry’s works offer an innovative view on the repurposing of materials in art, exploring how things usually considered to be trash can be recycled.
In Brief
Brooklyn Museum Visitor Dies After Trying to Slide Down Third-Floor Banister
Kirkland Dawson, a 34-year-old attorney, toppled over the staircase railing and landed on the ground floor at a party at the museum.
Film
A Movie Envisions the Trial that Eric Garner Never Had
Roee Messinger’s American Trial: The Eric Garner Story envisages a future that was denied to Eric Garner and his family, thanks to the extremely racist and flawed legal system in the United States.