Books
In Sienese Paintings a Writer Finds Sanctuaries that Allow Him to Grieve
While in Siena, memoir author Hisham Matar turns to his own love of paintings by the Sienese School,and spends hours, days even, in front of a single work.
Review
Art
The Untamed Jungles of Vivian Suter’s Abstract Paintings
While the ecological aspect of Suter’s work is particularly timely, her obvious enjoyment of pure color and form makes her artworks all the more enduring.
Performance
The Spiritual Side of Performance
A performance series that asks, “What is sacredness?”
Art
Kehinde Wiley Seizes the Throne
Wiley shows us that a Black man can indeed take the place of Napoleon.
Art
Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
Art
What Lies Between Jokes and Art
Both are prone to the response, “I don’t get it.”
Art
Henry Moore, Bill Brandt, and Where They Intersect
Throwing together a sculptor and photographer and hoping for a spark.
Art
Can an Artist Be Compulsive and Deliberate?
One of many captivating and delicious things about Harry Roseman's drawings is that he has dissolved the boundary between madness and rationality.
Art
The Wonderfully Perplexing World of Gladys Nilsson
Nilsson's paintings come across as youthful and wise, a rare combination in any art.
Books
Friends and Critics Remember Manny Farber's Life as an Artist
Manny Farber: Paintings and Writings is the first comprehensive overview of the renowned film critic's work as a painter.
Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
Art
Images of Black Women as Avatars of Spiritual Agency
Delita Martin's latest exhibition, Calling Down the Spirits, seeks to visualize the incorporeal and genetic strands that tether generations of Black women to each other and to the spiritual world.