Book Review
An Ode to Lois Dodd
A new monograph on the nonagenarian American painter is a well of bliss.
Review
Art Review
The Minister Who Created Care Through Clay
Joyce McDonald describes herself as a “testimonial artist,” who bears witness and represents the sacred as she and her community experience it.
Art Review
Nayland Blake’s Dark Joke Is On You
The artist has perfected a register that is laugh-out-loud funny or absurd, rigorously conceptual, and erotic, edged with simmering rage.
Art Review
Exploring New Paths in Landscape-Based Art
A show at The 8th Floor gallery in Manhattan extracts the politics of landscape.
Film Review
Sharon Lockhart’s Beguiling Tableaus of Children in Nature
Windward pulls us into an almost prelapsarian vision of childhood existence on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island: no phones, no screens, no sense of impending climate crisis.
Art Review
The Beauty in the IRL
In Marta Lee’s solo show, I found a measure for reality that had never occurred to me to try before: painting.
Art Review
Celebrating the Science of Quilts
The eclectic threads of An Ecology of Quilts merge to tell a story that starts outdoors, with seeds sprouting, blooming, and reaching toward the sun.
Art Review
How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape
The Los Angeles artist practices what she calls “abstraction in reverse,” starting from basic shapes to construct landscapes.
Art Review
In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa
Shadows aren’t an afterthought in her work, but another dimension of it — another way one thing can contain or serialize into an infinity.
Art Review
The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck
I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it.
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.
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.