Art Review
Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road
His new exhibition "I Bring Home With Me" combines portraits with seating areas and a model of his studio, inviting visitors to stay awhile and get comfortable.
Review
Art Review
Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth
Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
Art Review
An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
Art Review
The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.
Art Review
Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.
Art Review
Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin.
Art Review
Wally Hedrick Protested War With Sex
The countercultural San Francisco artist specialized in antiwar art and the transcendent potential of sex in the era of flower power.
Book Review
The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.
Film Review
Diaries of a Chairwoman
Juliette Lewis turns into a chair in a film that critiques mass culture’s conflation of femininity with consumerism and envy.
Art Review
The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy
The varied, confrontational works on view at Madrid's La Casa Encendida are reminders of the intense labor required to protect liberty.
Book Review
Chipping Away at the Facade of Mount Rushmore
In “Biography of a Mountain,” author Matthew Davis deftly weaves together interviews and stories that reveal so much more than a linear narrative of the monument’s history.
Art Review
A Cold Plunge Into Glenn Ligon’s Blue
New works exemplify a line of inquiry central to the artist’s practice: How might language and color merge to birth figuration?