Art Review
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America
The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element.
Review
Film Review
Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
Pocket Review
Tanya Merrill's Animal Instinct
After a move upstate and a newborn, Merrill’s new work responds to the world around her.
Film Review
Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”
Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, who has a knack for patient observation, follows a single family on a quest to find a miracle.
Art Review
Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art
His syncretic style melds Pop Art’s cool, outlined forms with expressionism’s figural distortions, resulting in a perturbing ambiguity.
Art Review
Who’s the Thief in Deana Lawson’s Photography?
I wonder what the women standing perpetually accused and anonymous might say about the sale of their stolen images.
Art Review
Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds
Though he is known primarily for his work of fantastical landscapes and mystical woodland creatures, a new retrospective tells the full story.
Book Review
John Berger in His Own Bruised Time
The late novelist and art critic asked Tom Overton to wait to write his biography until after his death. The result is deeply informative, deferential, and perceptive, sometimes lyrically so.
Art Review
Roy Lichtenstein Has Lost His Luster
He went from being a satirist of America’s ideals to a parody of himself, an artist content with other artists’ masterpieces.
Book Review
The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA
A team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world.
Pocket Review
A Little Fantasy Goes a Long Way
In this photography exhibition, works vacillate between intimacy and unknowability, like a fractured peep show.
Book Review
Finding Vermeer in Unexpected Places
Artists, filmmakers, poets, and the art market itself still bear traces of the Dutch painter’s influence, writes historian Ruth Bernard Yeazell in “Vermeer’s Afterlives.”