Art
The Old Essex Street Market, at the Edge of Civilization
The installation found inside the Historic Essex Street Market building suggests both a brilliant achievement and a crypt.
Review
Art
James Tissot’s Weirdly Sexy, Astonishingly Cinematic, and Spiritual Paintings
The show is essentially a love story, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and unfolds almost like a serial novel. A precursor to Proust, say, in paint.
Performance
A One-Man Show Repackages Michel Foucault for the Age of Trump
This boldly minimalist production — a co-presentation of FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival, the Invisible Dog Art Center, and The Cooper Union directed by Fanny de Chaillé — revisits a text written for times of upheaval.
Art
Fluid Glimpses of a Queer Community on the Margins
More than portraits of the Piers, Alvin Baltrop's photos become documentation of the AIDS crisis in the '80s, which deeply impacted (and continues to impact) queer communities and communities of color.
Art
Centering the Equator in Global Conversations About Art
With its focus on art from Indonesia and Southeast Asia, this year's edition of the Biennale Jogja offers a fresh take on discussions of centers and peripheries.
Art
When a Survey Show of Contemporary German Painting ... Isn't One
The curators of Now! Young Painting in Germany have to ask themselves how a survey of German contemporary painting justifies a disproportionate representation of certain art academies.
Art
Caravaggio and Bernini, Together at Last
We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.
Books
Putting the Art Back in Art History
Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.
Art
Brian Belott's Satirical Modernist Grids
In his current exhibition, Belott degrades the modernist grid, making it lumpy with swollen puffs that participate in the artwork’s visual order while satirizing it.
Art
Male Nudes, Exposed and Examined
In unabashedly sexual, but not necessarily erotic paintings and drawings, the artist Aaron Skolnick focuses on men — naked and intimate.
Art
A Modern Trompe L'Oeil Painter
Kim Tschang-Yeul transformed the formal vocabulary of American abstraction into a symbolic possibility in his paintings. He was not interested in making a pure painting.
Art
A Monochrome Painter's Immanent Light
Painter Anne Appleby, who lives on a ranch in rural Montana, is highly attuned to the colors she sees in her landscape, as well as to the changing light and seasons.