Book Review
Do We Need to Vindicate Paul Gauguin?
Sue Prideaux’s new biography of the artist reveals both a discomfort with his complex legacy and that, in 2025, redemption arcs sell.
Review
Art Review
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
From ceramic alligators to Nordic traditions, artists focusing on personal concerns and identity are making some fascinating work.
Art Review
Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time
Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds.
Art Review
Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal
People of color are often called upon to perform their identities, but Nguyen’s lush tapestries largely avoid that trap.
Art Review
Stanley Rosen’s Love-Hate Relationship With Alligators
Consistent throughout Rosen's unglazed alligator sculptures is his ambition to connect the shaping of clay with prehistoric visions.
Art Review
Do We Still Dream of a Cyborg Future?
An exhibition spanning the 1960s through ’90s prods the potentialities and limits of a cyborgian body.
Art Review
David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
Art Review
The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.
Art Review
Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
Art Review
When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.
Art Review
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
Art Review
Weaving That Opens to the World and Heavens
Claudia Alarcón and the Wichí women weavers who compose the collective Silät create artworks that seem to channel land and celestial bodies.