Art
From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
Lisson Gallery
Art
Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Crap
The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it.
Art
Tony Bechara Creates Chaos With Grids
Bechara’s grid paintings are dazzling, engaging, and unsettling, since they undermine any sense of stability that we associate with a grid.
News
Ai Weiwei Speaks Out on Cancellation of His London Exhibition
In a statement to Hyperallergic after Lisson Gallery nixed his show, the artist warned of “soft violence aimed at stifling voices” on the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Gallery Nixes Ai Weiwei Show After Tweet About Israel
Lisson Gallery says the show was postponed; the artist says it was “effectively canceled.”
Art
Liu Xiaodong’s Empathetic Eye
One of the underlying commonalities among the sites Liu has painted is the deleterious consequences of modernization on a traditional society or group.
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Seduced By Sunshine and Square Footage, Some New York Galleries Are Headed West
But some point out that the seemingly zeitgeisty shift to LA is nothing new in the art world.
Art
Liu Xiaodong’s New York Diary
Even in this acute moment in our history, the artist is able to slow down his looking to find and celebrate the beauty of human determination.
Art
Abstraction’s Exhaustion and Renewal
Bernard Piffaretti is an artist who recognizes painting as an act of inquiry and skepticism.
Art
Refusing Painting’s Obsolescence
My admiration for Stanely Whitney’s resoluteness has increased over the years, as well as my sense of his growing authority as a masterful colorist.
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The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
Art
12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.