Art
Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit’s Manufacturing Heritage
An ambiguity between adaptation and transformation hangs over this large exhibition.
Review
Books
How Painting Survives in the Digital Era
In her new book, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium, critic Isabelle Graw ruminates on how painting remains omnipresent within the contemporary capitalist system and digital economy.
Film
Films that Explore How Resentment Shapes Us
On Resentment, a film series opening at BAM on March 20, probes the question: "How does resentment channel our attentions and efforts, and to what ends?"
Film
Hans Op de Beeck Stages Silence
A whimsical fantasia constitutes the film's emotional and intellectual core.
Books
When Will Ralph Eugene Meatyard Get the Retrospective He Deserves?
Meatyard’s use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have yet to fully address.
Art
The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross
The exhibition Mimi Gross: Among Friends, 1958-1963 helps to set the record straight: Gross was a strong, confident artist when she met Red Grooms at the age of 18, and that her work continued to grow right up to their marriage in 1964.
Art
Nari Ward’s Angels in America
Ward doesn’t just utilize found objects; he communicates with them — intellectually, visually, soulfully.
Performance
The Wooster Group Explores Black Folklore in Texas State Prisons
The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.
Art
India’s Reclusive Master of Primordial Form
Krishna Reddy was one of the most innovative printmakers at the most innovative atelier in Paris.
Art
The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer
Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.
Art
In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period
The medieval epoch shouldn't only be envisioned through a European lens.
Art
The Disturbing Yet Hopeful Paintings of an Outsider Artist
Bernard Gilardi's exhibition suggests a positive grouping of misfits, a hopeful interpretation of the ambiguity within Gilardi’s paintings as a sanctuary for the odd.