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Relearning to Draw with Strips of Colored Tape
You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
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No Room for Satire
King Testicle and Prince Kushy make a deal for the future of humanity.
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Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted
In this exhibition contemporary artworks are paired with works that have been destroyed or lost to the annals of art history.
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The Extraordinary Marcia Hafif
For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.
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Philadephia's "Festival for the People" Is Short on Locals
I wish Philadelphia Contemporary had better followed through on the promise of representing everyday people within the city with its Festival for the People.
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The Potential of Ancestral Memory to Reconcile Personal and Racial Histories
In his exhibition at Yours Mine & Ours gallery Steve Locke aestheticizes the entanglement of personal, familial, and racial histories which sits upon the mantel of every Black American home.
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Bernar Venet's Retrospective Creates a Modernist Mausoleum
Like tumbled tombstones marking the graveyard of self-referential Modernism, the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon presents a remarkable set of remembrances to ponder.
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Dada-Inspired Snack Foods for an Aesthetic Eating Experience
By infusing decadence and whimsy into snacking, these food products invite an unexpected visual experience to the typically mindless midday nosh.
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A Timely Remembrance For Witch Hunts Of The Past by Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor
A pilgrimage to visit Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor’s Norwegian memorial made for victims of the witchcraft trials hits home.
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Political Posters that Defined the 1968 Protests in Mexico City and Paris
An exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the global clash between activist movements and their governments displays posters from Mexico and Paris.
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An Ohio Sculpture Festival that Is Curiously Light on Sculpture
Heavy on interactive works, audience intervention, and social practice art, Toledo's annual sculpture festival raises the question of why we organize festivals around the theme of common discipline.
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Frank Stella's Riotous Interpretation of Moby-Dick
There is something almost musical and improvisatory about the artist's interpretation of the epic tale of Captain Ahab and the whale.