Art
Seeing Is Creating in Mark Milroy’s Art
Milroy begins his paintings with direct observation but ends up someplace that I cannot name.
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Why Are We Celebrating Dutch Imperialism in 2024?
An exhibition relishes in the opulence of the objects produced by Dutch globalism while disingenuously acknowledging its destruction on unpictured shores.
Books
Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History
A new volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories.
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Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youth
The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
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Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
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Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined
I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.
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Melissa Meyer’s Lush Urban Glyphs
Working with line and color for more than two decades, Meyer has shown that reductive painting need not squeeze out improvisation.
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Where Carnal Needs Meet Unearthly Setting
Xingzi Gu broadcasts memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers via ethereal depictions of energies, moods, and emotions.
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Chantal Joffe’s Diaries of an Empty-Nester
A narrative unfolds in Joffe’s My dearest dust that explores motherhood, loss, and individual identity as her daughter leaves home.
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The Adroit Formalism of Suzanne McClelland
Her paintings become even more visceral when set against her cerebral symbolism.
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A Japanese Painter’s Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaiʻi
After moving to Honolulu in his early 70s, the Gen'ichirō Inokuma drew inspiration from the rainbows, night sky, and other natural phenomena of his new home.
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The Monstrous Femininity of Maureen St. Vincent
The artist’s aquatic pastels represent women who cannot be domesticated or controlled.