Art
The Measureless James Turrell
Like memory, Turrell‘s work exists outside of space and time and sound.
Review
Art
Digital Meditations on Water
Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow reveal water’s unearthliness.
Art
Color Field, Then and Now
I fear that the visual culture in which these works were admired is now one of those distant “you had to be there” moments, which are impossible to reconstruct.
Art
Painting’s Divided Legacy
There are artists who paint, and those who use paint.
Art
A Major Korean Painter Begins to Get His Due
While postwar Korean artists are celebrated in the West, the strongest painters of the next generation remain under-known.
Art
Insightful and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Reports From NY Fairs
Volta was hot, sticky, and crowded. Independent might make you swoon. One visitor calls Art on Paper “more real.”
Art
Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines
From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns.
Art
Tate's Bold Decision to Tackle the British Baroque
The political, dynastic, and religious machinations of this era should have provided ample material for a meaty exploration of the relationship between art and power.
Art
Spring/Break Art Show Is a Work of Art Worth Diving Into
Titled In Excess, this year's Spring/Break is brimming with projects that deepen and extend a feeling of immersion by being hallucinatory, obsessive, and ravishing.
Film
A Rediscovered Nancy Holt Documentary From 1970
The short documentary Utah Sequences, previously thought to be lost, purely displays Nancy Holt’s vision of time and place.
Art
Sonia Gomes’s Sewn and Twisted Traces of History
The artist’s act of pulling materials apart and stitching them into a new form creates a tangible bridge between the past and the present.
Art
An Artist Revives a Story From One Thousand and One Nights for Contemporary Times
Elements from "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" come together to comment on current sociopolitical realities in Sama Alshaibi’s sculptural installation “The Cessation," at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.