Book Review
Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art
The photographer, who has been the subject of controversy at times in her career, discusses her approach to life in her new book, Art Work.
Review
Art Review
Edward Gorey Killed His Darlings
A show at the Society of Illustrators demonstrates his mastery at turning ghastly scenarios deadpan and winkingly absurd.
Art Review
Junk Food for the One Percent
In A Match Made in Heaven, Katherine Bernhardt and Jeremy Scott are so simpatico that the intertwining of their art feels natural — even divine.
Art Review
The Propaganda Dilemma
Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s infographics about the lives of Black people after Emancipation, an exhibition at New York’s Print Center complicates our reading of data.
Art Review
A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
Judy Ledgerwood turns the decorous decorum of Pattern & Decoration into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar.
Art Review
Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
Art Review
The Video Game of Life
In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.
Art Review
For Duane Linklater, It’s a Buffalo’s World
The Omaskêko Cree artist ties the well-being of the animals to that of the Indigenous people with whom they have long lived symbiotically — not in nostalgic terms, but in futurist ones.
Art Review
Vaginal Davis Is Queercore's Fairy Godmother
For the gender-bending artist, size matters — just not in the way you think, suggests a new survey at MoMA PS1.
Art Review
How Textiles Weave Together the Cycle of Life
Four exhibitions currently up in Chicago each take a unique approach to the possibilities of working with textiles today, some with humor, others with gravitas.
Art Review
A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined
Paintings by Abigail Dudley and sculptures by Elise Siegel showcase their absorption with oil paint and clay, respectively.
Book Review
The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age
The artists profiled in Grand Finales refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things.