Art Review
“Costume Art” Is a Bad Look for The Met
The exhibition shapes a fashion canon based less on historical relevance than on the interests of those in charge.
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Bathing With the Nymphs
Olivia Zubko combines our favored legends with humankind’s most sacred pillars: beauty and bathrooms.
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David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t
He brought his optical preoccupations into the 21st century, without losing his love of artists from earlier eras.
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Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America
The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element.
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Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art
His syncretic style melds Pop Art’s cool, outlined forms with expressionism’s figural distortions, resulting in a perturbing ambiguity.
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Who’s the Thief in Deana Lawson’s Photography?
I wonder what the women standing perpetually accused and anonymous might say about the sale of their stolen images.
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Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds
Though he is known primarily for his work of fantastical landscapes and mystical woodland creatures, a new retrospective tells the full story.
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Roy Lichtenstein Has Lost His Luster
He went from being a satirist of America’s ideals to a parody of himself, an artist content with other artists’ masterpieces.
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Truman Lowe Listens to the Water
In his first major retrospective, the Hoocąk artist transforms natural materials into fluid sculptures that carry the memory of place, ancestry, and cultural survival.
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A Felix Gonzalez-Torres Exhibition Forgets What He Was Fighting For
“Sweet Revenge” at the Reina Sofía gives the impression of a showcase of a second-generation Minimalist artist, emphasizing form over anything else.
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I Wanted a Different Betty Parsons Exhibition
It might have made a more fascinating exhibition to explore her balancing act as a gallerist, but this show focuses on her less interesting art.
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The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.