Book Review
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds follows a painter whose devotion to a filmmaker keeps her from living her life, even as she gains access to the supposed upper echelons of the art world.
Review
Art Review
What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh?
As a show on the pair at the Royal Academy unwittingly demonstrates, not much.
Film Review
Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame
A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.
Art Review
There’s Not Enough of Liverpool in the City’s Biennial
While the "Bedrock" theme suggests connections to the region, many works fail to engender meaningful dialogue with the area.
Art Review
Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”
When “rediscovered” women artists are lumped together, we might ask: Who acts as the discoverer, who tells the story, and how do they tell it?
Art Review
An Insider Artist’s Outsider Alter-Ego
A recurring lack of nuance plagues Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection, which explores history, gender, class, and mental illness.
Book Review
André Breton After the Surrealist Manifesto
In the French poet’s later writings, now available in an English translation, his ideas about the movement he founded begin to mingle with our own.
Art Review
A Contemporary Art Exhibition in an 18th-Century Home
Through paper works set within period interiors, Rejin Leys makes visible the nested layers of Jamaica, Queens.
Art Review
When One Door Opens, Another Transports Us
Christian Marclay’s most recent assemblage-style film splices together cinematic clips of doors and the various comings and goings they usher.
Art Review
The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art
A survey of the LA artist’s work proves that the issues she began grappling with in the 1970s are not past threats, but hauntingly present ones.
Art Review
An Impressionist's Ode to Male Sensuality
A retrospective of the work of Gustave Caillebotte illuminates the painter’s radical focus on the male form and the lives of men.
Art Review
The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.