Art
Assemblage Art for the Age of the Online Shopper
Bader brings a conceptual playfulness to found-object assemblage, updating Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the assisted readymade for the age of the online shopper.
Review
Art
An LA Gallery’s Sexy Xmas Tradition
The Lodge has a cheeky interpretation of Christmas cheer.
Art
The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work
Between 1962 and ’75, Willenbecher made a substantial body of work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to make order out of the inexplicable.
Art
A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden's Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time.
Art
An Artist Honors Iceland's Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.
Film
Yugoslavian Monuments Deliver a Message from Two Billion Years in the Future
The only film directed by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson before his death in 2018, Last and First Men is an eerie combination of sci-fi and documentary.
Art
The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell
Each portrait in Lovell's current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.
Art
Does A Pairing With Warhol Do Marisol Any Favors?
Does an attempt to lift up the art of Marisol backfire?
Art
Lina Puerta’s Art Mimics Botanical and Female Anatomical Forms
Puerta’s artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity.
Art
The Unknown Work of Rakuko Naito
Naito's Op-inspired abstractions might have been an oblique way of dealing with feelings of displacement after moving to the United States.
Art
The Neglected Afterlife of the Great Georges Braque
Braque's paintings speak of self-containment, of a quietly impassioned, ongoing dedication to the task at hand.
Art
The Liminal Space of Identity for Residents of US Territories
In Amber Robles-Gordon's artwork, the borders between states matter less than the overlapping territories of self, the never-ending negotiation of identity.