Art
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire
Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object.
Review
Art
The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt
The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.
Book Review
Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.
Art
Dawoud Bey Asks, Can Landscapes Hold Traumas?
The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call.
Art
The Analog Charm of Pre-Internet Technological Art
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing.
Art
Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class
Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.
Book Review
A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
Art
Raoul De Keyser’s Dramas of Looking
Because the waywardness of his paintings is a product of its unspoken logic, his marks and variations are performing precisely the right roles.
Art
The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism
Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.
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Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea
Maybe Jackson's ceramic "monsters" are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson has made a place where they do.
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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season
Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run.
Art
The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting
From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.