Book Review
Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right
The calligrapher, illustrator, and mother to Andy Warhol lived with her son in New York City for decades, supporting and even collaborating with him on artistic projects.
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Art
Step Into Sonia Boyce’s Sensory World
Shimmering with color and sound, her exhibition Feeling Her Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario feels both expansive and enveloping.
Art
WTF Is Planar Painting?
It is refreshing to see a group show that hews to its curatorial statement, and includes both old friends and unexpected twists.
Book Review
Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking
The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.
Art
13 Artists Perform Selfhood in the Age of Alienation
From Alex Ito’s shifting mirrors to Laura Anderson Barbata’s oceanic drag, each piece in this show weaves together themes of identity, protection, and transformation.
Art
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
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The Divided Being of Forrest Bess
He was one of the first American artists to grapple with the many parts of an individual’s identity, and seek to unify them.
Book Review
New Graphic Novel Tackles Thorny Questions Around Animal Cruelty
Dog Days examines the complexity of human-canine relationships in light of intergenerational tensions in South Korean society.
Art
Linda Mussmann’s Art Is a Labor of Love
While Time & Space Limited expand the artistic quality of life in its community, Mussmann remains steadfast at the helm of this mighty mothership.
Art
The Haunted Women of Else Hagen
In the mid-20th century, the Norwegian painter plumbed the tensions, envies, frustrations, and tender bonds among feminine subjects.
Art
The Interplay Between Art and Sports
An exhibition animates new scripts for both art-making and sport, positing their languages of rhythmic choreography as sites of possibility and reclamation.
Art
The Anti-Monuments of Torkwase Dyson
The artist’s multi-disciplinary practice challenges colonial and anti-Black art distinctions between representation and abstraction.