Art Review
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Reminds Us of Our Humanity
It feels like an important time to be highlighting moments of intimacy amid strife, given that we live in a time of famine, war, and genocide.
Galerie Lelong
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Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction
By laying numbers, words, and phrases onto otherwise abstract imagery, the late Argentinian artist prophesized the dread-inducing news alerts of our time.
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The Galactic Visions of Leonardo Drew
This exhibition could use some more acreage to convey the feeling of standing at a doorway leading to a universe sparkling with abundant energies.
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The Luminous Blues of Ficre Ghebreyesus’s Painterly World
Foregrounding narratives of oceanic migration, Ghebreyesus’s paintings radiate power and serenity in vibrant shades of blue.
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The Political Truths That Ground Our Athletic Heroes
These men and women are our dreams, manifesting a grace that the rest of us lack — a grace we expect to stay aloft, in the air.
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Treading on Euphemisms for Women
At Galerie Lelong, one of China's most celebrated contemporary artists covers the floor with a three-inch-thick carpet literally woven out of dozens of words for "woman."
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Nancy Spero's Festival of Death
Originally made for the 2007 Venice Biennale, the artist's "Maypole: Take No Prisoners" manifests the spectacle of violence and war.
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Ladies First at the ADAA Art Show
Women artists are ubiquitous at the most august of the week's art fairs, from canonical figures like Lee Krasner and Lee Bontecou to lesser-known figures like Zilia Sánchez and Evelyn Statsinger.
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An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books
Samuel Levi Jones uses books to raise questions about how history is remade and repurposed for the present and future.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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Yoko Ono Asks Gallery Visitors to Repair the Impossibly Broken
Two Chelsea galleries are simultaneously hosting the same audience-activated Yoko Ono pieces, with collaborative mending of shattered ceramic, sketching of an infinite line, and contemplating river rocks.
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Recovering Abstraction: McArthur Binion’s Intimate Grids
McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after I left the gallery and decided to walk home amidst the late afternoon din of Manhattan traffic and people in a rush to get home.