Art
Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
DePaul Art Museum
Books
Guantánamo’s Artists Fight for Beauty
Remaking the Exceptional allows us to feel the furious joy that emanates from those who have saved their own lives with activism and art.
Comics
Artists Return to New Age Strategies for Empowerment
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.
Test 2018 posts
An Exhibition that Frustrates Our Grasp of Abstraction
Though Out of Easy Reach has a unifying theme, it presents a variety of tastes and approaches in a way that feels like ungainly curation which ultimately does not clarify how these women artists now steer the conversation about abstraction.
Art
Paul D'Amato Documents America, or Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO — Paul D'Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago's West Side.