Books
Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
A new biography attempts to make the case for Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.
Review
Book Review
“Thinking From Black” Is a Glossary of Possibility
Artists, poets, and scholars mull over words of their choosing in this book, offering new definitions of phrases from which Blackness proliferates: “world,” “water,” “care.”
Art Review
The Met’s Krasner and Pollock Show Is a Breathtaking Upending
If you’re looking for bias or reparations, these volatile contents are all on the surface, quietly and neatly presented.
Book Review
Turning Turner’s Legacy
“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.
Art Review
Mala Iqbal Paints the Space We Share With Strangers
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
Pocket Review
Rebecca Ness Stakes Her Claim to Art History
Reinterpreting canonical works is nothing new, but her work shines when it's most personal.
Pocket Review
A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous
Derriann Pharr, an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum, draws from girlhood and womanhood in works that metamorphose before our eyes.
Art Review
Paint Isn’t Just Paint at the New York Studio School
This exhibition of painters Brenda Goodman, Steve DiBenedetto, and Bendix Harms pushed me out of my comfort zone.
Art Review
The Agony and Ecstasy of Johanna Hedva
The artist’s first institutional solo in New York grapples with the idea of surrendering to the cosmos, but isn’t always convincing.
Art Review
Teresa Margolles and the Violence We Breathe
Her MoMA PS1 exhibition raises the question: What exactly does formal restraint accomplish in an age of violent excess?
Film Review
The Rough-and-Ready Brilliance of Barbara Hammer’s “Nitrate Kisses”
Newly restored in 4K, the film feels prescient as groups are once again being scapegoated for public health crises and financial instability.
Art Review
Kenzi Shiokava Did It for the Love of It
He modeled what a life in art can amount to without acclaim, celebrity, money, and all the other trappings we tell artists are required.