Art Review
Todd Gray Reframes Black Diasporic History
His installations of layered photos drawn from an expansive Black heritage entice viewers to keep looking, find connections, and ask questions.
Perrotin
Art Review
Jin Meyerson’s Orbits of Belonging
Across luminous, fragmented paintings in SAFE SPACE, the Korean diasporic artist invites us into an ongoing search for respite amid the dislocation of hybrid identity.
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A Group Show Bridges Asia and the West Coast
Pacific Abstractions at Perrotin draws attention to Asian abstract artists and traces their legacy through contemporary diasporic artists on the West Coast.
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The Critique-Profiteering Work of MSCHF
Combining the provocative spirit of internet trolling, clickbait scamming, and MTV’s Punk’d, the collective satirizes consumerism while making bank.
Art
Rina Banerjee Confronts the Orientalizing Gaze
Recurring throughout Banerjee’s work and in her latest exhibition are the threads of power, cultural reproduction, and imperial afterlives.
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Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
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Surrounded by Spirits
Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings.
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GaHee Park's Cool Nudes
There is a coolness to the way Park paints her figures, as well as a sculptural attention paid to form and surfaces.
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The Art Handler Whose Shoulder Shattered at the Loading Dock
The art world conditions its workers to accept subpar safety standards and low salaries in the name of high culture. And because art handlers frequently hop from institution to institution for jobs, issues are typically handed off to the next wave of workers.
Art
An Exclusive Glimpse of a Gilded Salon of Presidential Power
For his elegant new film, Laurent Grasso was allowed to film in the Salon Doré, the golden-hued office of the President of France.
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Korea’s Monochrome Painting Movement Is Having a New York Moment
The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century
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Pierre Soulages: Painter of Black and Light
For many, Pierre Soulages was regarded as the Parisian counterpart to the abstract expressionists in New York. The only problem was that the French audience, in general, appeared less interested in his work than the Americans.