Art
Living in the World of Art
It is a finely attuned openness to the world that we encounter in Suzan Frecon’s work, a sense of color unlike anyone else’s.
Review
Art
Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough
These are the paintings of a modern master for whom dissipation and loss of control have become integrated into the work.
Art
As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases
The Annenberg Space for Photography maps the complex landscape of walls and rends, openings and sutures, that, to an ever-larger degree, defines our age.
Art
Enter an Eerie Nowhere Land, Where the Mundane Meets the Mythic
In Horizontal Vertigo: WangShui, the Julia Stoschek Collection hosts an exhibition of new works by the New York-based studio known for their explorations of technology, identity, and diaspora.
Performance
Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged
In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.
Film
Shining the Spotlight on a Broader Swath of Korean Cinema
“Korean Cinema” often refers primarily to celebrated auteurs like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. A new series at Film at Lincoln Center offers a 21-film corrective, illuminating the wide range of contemporaneous production in South Korea.
Art
Representations of Listless, Deadening, Corporate Office Life
Using cubicle partitions obtained from the Texas Department of Education in Austin, Jessica Vaughn’s setup resembles a planned office airlifted from the 1980s.
Art
Challenging Censorship, One Meticulous Artwork at a Time
Xie's latest exhibition at Asia Society Museum grapples with the long history of book banning in his home country of China.
Film
HBO's Watchmen, Politically Uncertain But Magnetic In the Moment
If the show's analysis of racial tensions ends up falling apart, it will definitely be a case of too much liberalism on the brain.
Art
Peeling Back the Layers of Alina Szapocznikow's Bodily Sculptures
As a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth demonstrates, part of Szapocznikow's extraordinary accomplishment as an artist was her ability to represent what many after World War II felt was unrepresentable.
Art
Relationships Woven Through Textiles at the Bauhaus
Weaving beyond the Bauhaus looks at the intersecting connections and relationships that took root at the Bauhaus’s weaving workshop and continue to unfurl today.
Books
A New Book on Women Artists Is Welcome, But Uneven
The title of Great Women Artists is complete with a strikethrough across “women,” to indicate that the artists within are “great artists” regardless of gender. Visually, it’s arresting, but its intention is murky.