Art
Lorna Simpson's Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity
Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.
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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity
Zohra Opoku's sensitive and nuanced consideration of female, cultural, and cross-cultural identities are highly personal and profoundly politically relevant.
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Portraits that Feel Like Chance Encounters and Hazy Recollections
Nathaniel Quinn’s first museum solo show features work which suggests that reality might best be recognized by its disjunctions rather than by single-point perspective.
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Paintings That Manage to Focus Our Divided Attentions
How can one static image begin to capture lived experience? Njideka Akunyili Crosby answers this question with astonishing polish and grace.
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The Tactile Temptation of Ray Johnson's Assemblages
Ray Johnson's exhibition at Matthew Marks is proof that the eccentric collage and mail artist's works were never meant for gallery walls.
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Mocking Materialism with Collage
In his exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, David Shrobe uses the nonsensical and irrational as tonics for the relentless instrumentalization of what we purchase and consume.
Books
A Book and Exhibition Reveal Josef Albers's Rarely Seen Photocollages
In his only lecture on photography, Albers warned students against approaching photography carelessly, and the collages he made of his own photos show how he put that mantra into practice.
Books
An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form.
Art
The Quintessentially Queer Art of Collage
In Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s latest exhibition, queer artists turn to collage to construct new worlds and identities.
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Sending Collage Down a Rabbit Hole
If you’re looking for clues to the dizzying imagery of Tim Spelios’s collages, you’re not going to get very far.
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Rainbow Sherbert Collages of Calamity
The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
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Saintly Collages of Everyday People
In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is highlighting women artists.