Books
A Time Before Whiteness
D. S. Marriott’s poems are a descent through the history of slavery, immigration, and the movement of refugees.
Review
Art
Shahzia Sikander's Radical Take on Traditional Arts
Sikander’s retrospective Extraordinary Realities gathers together themes of female multiplicity, queer desire, capitalist exploitation, and decolonial aesthetics.
Art
Marta Minujín Looks Ugliness Right in the Face
The Argentine artist’s early Informalist works, conjuring decay and degradation, are difficult to look at but deserving of our gaze.
Art
Kevin Beasley Threads Wires That Connect Los Angeles With the South
While this exhibition exists in an austere white cube, far away from the heavy heat and kudzu of Virginia or Louisiana, the artist invokes the South through material and conceptual pull.
Art
Siobhan Liddell Presents a Poem of a Show
Her latest exhibition is spare, strange, intentional in its moves, and economical in its means.
Art
A Travelogue of Imaginary Lands in Stamps
Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands.
Art
Deconstructing the Masculinity of Hercules
Artist Kyle Staver’s portrayal of the mythic hero feels balanced, as if to say: sure, the 12 labors are absurd, but isn’t all human endeavor?
Film
Kelly Reichardt Probes What Keeps Artists from Doing Work
Her recent film Showing Up features Michelle Williams as a sculptor who’s constantly driven to distraction.
Art
Mary Beth Edelson Celebrated the Goddess Within
Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would.
Art
A Meditation on Biotech's Cycles of Healing and Harm
Sharona Franklin's artwork is a celebration and commemoration of what is gained and lost with scientific advances that result in biohazardous waste.
Art
Terry Adkins's Objects of Wonder
An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains.
Art
Stories That Need to Be Told
Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.