Books
A Love Note to the Quirky South
Decades in the making, the late poet Jonathan Williams’s photo-filled travelogue captures the creative spirit of a region.
Review
Art
Painting Paradoxes of Family, Race, and Prison
Through his father’s profession as a corrections officer, Pat Phillips has found a pictorial strategy for probing the racial chasms of the justice system, and by inference, everyday life.
Art
The Independent Art Fair Embraces Color and Abstraction
Works by Franklin Williams, Curtis Talwst Santiago, and Marcus Amm caught my eye for their innovative use of color and diverse materials.
Art
Plan B Is a Fun Alternative During an Overwhelming Fair Week
A small art fair, Plan B has plenty to offer.
Art
New York's New Museum of the Dog Is Serving Canine Realness Extravaganza
It's stuffed to the brim with oodles of poodles and painted Pomeranians. But are these pooch paintings Pugcassos, or just plan Shih Tzu?
Art
This Year, the Spring/Break Art Show Is Less Fanciful but Still Worth It
Spring/Break feels a bit different this year, which might have something to do with its location in the United Nations complex in midtown.
Art
Charles White’s Intimate and Dignified Portraits of Labor and Black Oppression
Charles White: A Retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art surveys an illustrious career that spans from the Great Depression to the age of Black Power.
Art
Refugees Tell Their Stories Through Mementos
Jim Lommasson shows the human side of impersonal statistics with photographs of the personal belongings that immigrants brought with them.
Art
The Horrors and Delights of the Surrealist Subconscious
Two exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art revel in the unique strangeness of one’s mind.
Art
Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show
Progress is incremental, and art fairs are still hellacious places to appreciate art.
Film
The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid
The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe's art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.
Art
Between Body and Machine, a New Humanism Is Imagined
In this exhibition regarding the intersection of art and technology, instead of work that feels automated or detached, viewers are confronted with works that directly reference the body.