Art Review
Teresa Margolles and the Violence We Breathe
Her MoMA PS1 exhibition raises the question: What exactly does formal restraint accomplish in an age of violent excess?
Art Review
Film Review
The Rough-and-Ready Brilliance of Barbara Hammer’s “Nitrate Kisses”
Newly restored in 4K, the film feels prescient as groups are once again being scapegoated for public health crises and financial instability.
Art Review
Kenzi Shiokava Did It for the Love of It
He modeled what a life in art can amount to without acclaim, celebrity, money, and all the other trappings we tell artists are required.
Pocket Review
A Broomstick in a Man's World
In Emily Mae Smith's surreal paintings, a symbol of women’s work becomes a weapon.
Art Review
Arthur Jafa, King of Pop
His eclectic references and intuitive grasp of memes and virality set him apart as an artist taking assemblage and collage to new heights.
Art Review
The Polish Pavilion Dissolves You in the Politics of Sound
At the Venice Biennale, whale songs become a means for communication, opening up a dialogue on accessibility.
Art Review
What Happens After Repatriation?
“Tide of Returns” investigates the histories and futures of handmade dolls repatriated to an Indigenous Australian community.
Pocket Review
Thomas Hart Benton's Sanitized American Idyll
His ambition to capture the full experience of living in the United States had its limits.
Art Review
Gather 'Round, Willie Birch Is Speaking
Across five decades of work, he always asked: What's my neighborhood, and what does it need?
Art Review
Tarot for a Broken World
With some of the oldest surviving tarot decks on view, the Morgan’s exhibition traces how a Renaissance card game became something far more powerful.
Art Review
The Worst National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale
And some we're still ambivalent about.
Art Review
The Book of Alison Knowles
A retrospective traces the language of bookmaking in her expansive work and its radical influence on American art.