Art
Curators Experiment with Scale, Bringing New Life to the Jim Crow-era Photography of Hugh Mangum
A concise show of photographs printed for impact, at an enlarged scale and in color, magnifies questions about race in the United States.
Review
Art
The Ghosts of Cotton in the American Landscape
John E. Dowell takes as his subject one of the most influential plants in US history.
Art
Extraordinary California Women Artists Working from 1860 to 1960
An exhibition brings together work by artists whose contributions to art movements and regional histories might have been obscured, forgotten, or overshadowed by those of their male colleagues.
Art
The New Museum Hits “Save” on Net Art
The Art Happens Here favors a less technical definition of net art, as material based in or for internet cultures.
Art
Fragments of the Universe Captured in Dizzying Images
The concept that images represent a “shedding” pervades Stuart’s current exhibition, in which the artworks pit images against traces.
Art
The History of Jewelry, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Today
While the pieces on display are beautiful, The Met's Jewelry: The Body Transformed exhibition is lacking in curatorial vision, dividing the objects into blandly-broad thematic sections.
Art
Opening Up the White Cube
By asking what is and is not allowed, for whom, and who is writing the rules Curriculum at EFA Project Space offers tangible opportunities to challenge viewers' thinking.
Books
A Close Look at the Art of Genji
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion serves as a thorough introduction to a work of great literary and art-historical importance.
Performance
In the Swiss Alps, a Biennial Celebrates the Luxurious Part of the Art World
Elevation 1049 in the Swiss Alps seeks to gather art world glitterati in the mountain town of Gstaad for a singular art festival experience.
Books
The Poetry of Psychoanalysis
Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.
Books
Dora Malech's Formal Feelings
Malech poems foreground the beauty and power of form in her willingness to follow its constraints uncertain of the end result.
Art
Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.