Art
How Nancy Holt Anticipated the Influencer Age
Though Holt's photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage.
Review
Art
Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane's paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
Art
The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann's Body Politics
Schneemann's art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
Books
In Praise of the Exhibition Catalogue
Shary Boyle’s Outside the Palace of Me exhibition catalogue provides viewers with experiences that an in-person visit cannot.
Review
Pat Steir Accepts Time's Passage With Grace
Steir’s work of the ’90s was the result of physically demanding processes. What happens when you cannot do what you once did?
Books
Demolishing the Categories of Word and Image
An anthology of poems, fiction, and translated essays combined with images explores the role of memory and the visual.
Art
The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history.
Film
Is There Anything Left to Say About the Male Gaze?
Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power wants to join the ongoing conversation about gender and film. The trouble is that it has nothing new to say.
Art
You Can’t Coat the Holocaust With Gold
Anselm Kiefer's philosophy has its roots in German Romanticism, particularly the belief that the artist can mediate between the creative and the divine, between earth and heaven.
Art
Near the Border, Artists Fight for Self-Preservation
Maybe the place where we are dying all the time is the perfect location to imagine a new way to live.
Performance
The Stage as a "Living Concept" in Turkey's Performance Art
While The 90s Onstage looks back to a dynamic moment in Turkey's performance art scene, Ata Doğruel's "Light Source" reflects on the present.
Books
A Forgotten Modernist Finally Gets His Due
Architect Jean Welz worked in a socially engaged style that transcended individual pursuits for glory.