Art
David Byrne's Hopeful Drawings
Byrne's drawings makes me wonder what else art is for, but to remind us that what we call “being reasonable” is too often our expedient alibi for not using our imagination.
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Art
Robert Ryman's Joyful Last Paintings
The pleasure Ryman took in seeing and sensing the world of things so closely is what viewers who are open to his work will take away.
Art
A Lesson in Bad Manners From an Art Provocateur
Bad Manners is thoroughly and unmistakably an endeavor of one-time art world provocateur Jake Chapman.
Books
Photographs as Passageways to the Profound
Rich in sensations and ideas, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling uses unexpected juxtapositions of text and image to offer both antidotes to the mundane and passageways to the profound.
Art
Mexican Modernism Was More Than Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism feeds into the repeated use of Kahlo and Rivera’s work, and the mythology of their romantic relationship, as shorthand for an entire era.
Art
An Artist Welcomes You With the Tools of Play Therapy
Mimi Park's artwork is about the DIY creation and sustenance of an open-ended, experimental ecosystem, a non-hierarchical space of aimless exploratory interactions — in short, play.
Film
An AI-Generated Andy Warhol Confides In Us
The extensive Netflix docuseries, based on Warhol’s memoirs, won’t fully satisfy either casual viewers or fans of the Pop icon.
Art
The Pleasures of Slow Looking
Jule Korneffel is not after denial in her paintings but rather affirmation, even in these chaotic, seesawing times.
Art
Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions
By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.
Art
The Elusive Residue of Memory in Hazy Prints
“These prints are perhaps my surrender to Shadow,” writes New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic.
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Fragmentation as a Queer Artistic Strategy
What becomes of the body in the work of artists who challenge cisheteronormative frameworks?
Art
Alone in the Dying of the Light
One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.