Art
Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach
After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.
Review
Art
Finding the Heart of a Nation in Generations of Black Art
Why a truthful account of artistic development in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century must include the artists shown in this exhibition.
Books
An Artist Finds His Muse in a Hallucinogenic Drug
Joe Roberts's latest book, filled with color and mystical symbology, connects creativity and psychedelics.
Art
Sweat Out Your Political Frustrations on Treadmills and Trump Punching Bags
Welcome to Hard Times tells us to disconnect from our apps and instead work up a sweat over the challenges facing the world.
Art
Invoking Palestinian Embroidery Tradition Only to Unsettle It
Buthina Abu Milhem's art represents not only the pain of dispossession, but also the urgency and solace of art-making, its potential to give form to experience and vision.
Art
Martha Rosler’s Wicked and Welcome Sense of Humor
Rosler is not expecting art to end wars or change policy, but she wants to make the viewer pay attention to both in the first place.
Art
Reviving the Iconic Women of Lowrider Magazine
Liz Cohen, an artist and award-winning lowrider mechanic, creates vibrant tributes to the women who have modeled for Lowrider since 1977.
Art
Orientalism Persists in Conversations Around Chinese Contemporary Art
In Art and China after 1989, now at SFMOMA, China’s emergence onto the world stage is eclipsed by persisting Orientalist ideas and Western modes of curation.
Art
Cady Noland's Pathological America
While it would be comforting to dismiss Noland's 1980s and '90s vision of a pathological public sphere as hopelessly dated, unfortunately the opposite is true.
Art
A Drunk, Dark, and Gritty Show in a French Wine Cellar
Cold champagne is the inspiration for 20 multi-generational, international artists to create new work displayed in the wine cellars of Domaine Vranken Pommery.
Art
Paintings that Are Like Whispers and Secrets
“Visual poetry” is a phrase that gets thrown around quite a lot these days. Poetry has its own complexities, as captured by Monique Mouton’s subtle work.
Books
Charles Bernstein's Poems Rethink Language
Bernstein often transforms accessible language into a visual puzzle.