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A Deconstructed Hunting Cabin Filled with Fabricated Memories
LOS ANGELES — April Street’s solo exhibition Lay Down Your Arms, currently on view at the West Hollywood gallery Various Small Fires, is both visually engaging and spatially distinct.
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The Larger-Than-Life Projections of a Modern-Day Artist Adventurer
MIAMI BEACH — Janet Biggs is a modern day adventurer, an explorer in the best sense.
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An NYPD Sketch Artist Gets a Gallery Show
If you live in New York City, you’ve probably seen Detective Jason Harvey’s detailed graphite sketches, whether or not you know it.
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Infected Paintings as an Allegory of Migration
Trouble resounds in the work of Joseph Nechvatal.
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The Cool Conceptualism of Artworks at Absolute Zero
Freezing temperature, as it affects a subject’s kinetic energy, serves as a potent metaphor for this show.
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The Calmer, Contemplative Mood of Francis Bacon’s Late Paintings
Over the past several years the Gagosian Gallery in New York City has mounted shows described as “museum quality.”
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The Visceral Visual Art of Writer Wayne Koestenbaum
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Writer Wayne Koestenbaum says that during the first year of his painting career, he was consumed with homoerotic visuals.
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Martin Puryear Bears Witness
According to the wall text in the not-to-be-missed exhibition Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the artist was in “the Peace Corp in Sierra Leone, West Africa” from 1964 to '66.
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Takesada Matsutani’s Art of Expressive Textures and Ambiguous Blobs
NISHINOMIYA, Japan — Looking back at modernism’s multifaceted history — all those styles, manifesto-driven movements and “-isms,” which forever changed how artists, critics and viewers would look at and think about art — one is reminded that among its fundamental tenets was a call to search out the
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Slipping from Grasp: The Photographs of John Brill
Memories, in John Brill’s work, are things — photographs, often grainy and myopic, enshrined in everyday reliquaries: vintage frames, candy dishes, glass bowls, teacups and saucers.
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Spilled Bananas, Split Blades, and Books with Bullets: Eclectic Offerings at Mana Miami
MIAMI — The Miami neighborhood of Wynwood smells like stale weed, paint fumes, and gentrification.
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12 Years in, NADA Miami Beach Still Feels the Same: Different
MIAMI BEACH — Though its space has been downsized by roughly 20% this year, NADA Miami Beach 2015 still manages to cut through the swarms of largely uninspired and secondary market Miami Art Week fairs with its distinctive presentation of less polished, more experimental work — which sometimes seems