Book Review
The Paradoxical Promise of Postwar Liberation
Art history has struggled to address a contradictory artistic output that engaged with Japan’s modernization and occupation, a new book argues.
Review
Film Review
Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls
A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject.
Book Review
How the Wound Man Healed Medieval Europe
In a new book, art historian Jack Hartnell reconsiders the gruesome image as “one of the period’s most sophisticated repositories of medical hope.”
Art Review
An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality
Even when she is dealing with loaded subjects, like her mother’s death, Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes.
Book Review
Unpacking the Ageist Myths of Western Art
Scholar Larry Silver sheds light on depictions of old age in Greek, Biblical, and European art history, but misses a deeper exploration.
Art Review
A Cornstalk Grows in Soho
More than an artistic experiment in food production, Emily Janowick’s latest work is a droll and earnest meditation on family alienation.
Art Review
A Neo-Impressionism Show for the One Percent
An exhibition shows off the movement’s socialist politics via works a wealthy benefactor unironically chomped up.
Art Review
For Lygia Clark, Art Was a Means of Survival
The pioneering Brazilian artist and therapist used interactive works to show that art, therapy, and politics are more connected than we may think.
Art Review
Stephen Westfall’s Avian Abstractions
Like Charlie "Bird" Parker’s jazz improvisation, the artist's compositions are simultaneously cacophonous and rhythmic.
Art Review
The Night Harriet Tubman Made History
An exhibition of art and historical artifacts celebrates the freedom fighter’s story without over-mythologizing her.
Art Review
Geometric Abstraction in the Age of Disparity
Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams.
Art Review
Man Ray Was So Much More Than a Photographer
From film to painting to sculpture to chess, the Surrealist was an artist-inventor, tinkering away at light and objects and having a good laugh all the while.