Art Review
Thomas Gainsborough’s Portraits of Pride and Prejudice
The English artist’s paintings work hard to make social hierarchy feel beautiful, even natural.
Review
Art Review
Seurat and the Sea Is Postcard Perfect
Painted during summer trips to the Channel coast, Seurat intended his seascapes to “cleanse one’s eyes of the days spent in the studio.
Art Review
Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
Art Review
Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”
Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.
Book Review
Please, No More Disaffected White Girls
Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.
Art Review
Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road
His new exhibition "I Bring Home With Me" combines portraits with seating areas and a model of his studio, inviting visitors to stay awhile and get comfortable.
Art Review
Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth
Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
Art Review
An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
Art Review
The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.
Art Review
Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.
Art Review
Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin.
Art Review
Wally Hedrick Protested War With Sex
The countercultural San Francisco artist specialized in antiwar art and the transcendent potential of sex in the era of flower power.