Art
The Art of a Haunted United States
Even for viewers who don’t believe in ghosts, spirits, or alien life, the works in Supernatural America possess their own power.
Review
Art
Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief
What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.
Film
Reckoning with Israeli Censorship Through Autofiction
Ahed’s Knee is the latest film by Nadav Lapid to use a fictionalized version of the filmmaker to inveigh against societal injustice.
Art
Surrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its Edge
Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden's Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling.
Art
Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner's Shapeshifting Sculpture
By approaching sculpture as an open-ended experience of embodiment, Larner provokes us to repeatedly lose and locate ourselves in her work.
Art
A Hogarth Survey Has Good Intentions but Misses the Mark
Why assemble the most significant grouping of Hogarths from far and wide without indicating why calling out the faults in historical artworks is important to our understanding of our world today?
Art
The Deeply Satisfying Pleasures of Harriet Korman’s Paintings
Walter Pater famously said, “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Korman’s paintings exist in a musical state.
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.
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.