Performance
The Ritual Joy of Queer Performance Refuses to Give Up
Reigning diva Amygdala brings Brooklyn drag to Manhattan in “Pleasure Dome: Continuum,” a fête of therapeutic sound, vaudeville tributes, and queer politics.
Review
Pocket Review
Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues
Elegiac, urgent, and infinitesimal, the videos and Polaroids in "Spectra Obscura" express distinct sorts of disappearance, decay, and fleeting natural phenomena.
Art Review
I Wanted a Different Betty Parsons Exhibition
It might have made a more fascinating exhibition to explore her balancing act as a gallerist, but this show focuses on her less interesting art.
Art Review
The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
Books
Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
A new biography attempts to make the case for Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.
Book Review
“Thinking From Black” Is a Glossary of Possibility
Artists, poets, and scholars mull over words of their choosing in this book, offering new definitions of phrases from which Blackness proliferates: “world,” “water,” “care.”
Art Review
The Met’s Krasner and Pollock Show Is a Breathtaking Upending
If you’re looking for bias or reparations, these volatile contents are all on the surface, quietly and neatly presented.
Book Review
Turning Turner’s Legacy
“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.
Art Review
Mala Iqbal Paints the Space We Share With Strangers
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
Pocket Review
Rebecca Ness Stakes Her Claim to Art History
Reinterpreting canonical works is nothing new, but her work shines when it's most personal.
Pocket Review
A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous
Derriann Pharr, an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum, draws from girlhood and womanhood in works that metamorphose before our eyes.
Art Review
Paint Isn’t Just Paint at the New York Studio School
This exhibition of painters Brenda Goodman, Steve DiBenedetto, and Bendix Harms pushed me out of my comfort zone.