Art
The Potent Realism of Robert Pruitt’s Black Portraiture
Pruitt unexpectedly makes draftsmanship feel relevant, even urgent.
Review
Art
The 2018 Turner Prize Focuses on Video Art in Political Times
The 2018 edition of the provocative prize is dedicated to digital art, exploring queer identity, racial violence, and the Israel-Palestine conflict through video art.
Art
Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Depictions of Women's Pain
Overshadowed in her lifetime by her famous husband, Max Ernst, the American painter gets a major retrospective in Madrid.
Art
How Lorraine O’Grady Has Challenged a Segregated Art World
O’Grady has persistently raised questions about the lack of black representation in art and in the art world. But her latest exhibition represents a shift.
Books
The Ethics of a Mother's Labor
MyOther Tongue offers up an elderly mother’s particular, business-like attributes for consideration in an extended meditation on her work ethic.
Books
Poems Written in the Company of Other Writers
Friederike Mayröcker's poems are often dedicated to specific people and thus constitute a very present act of communication.
Art
Refusing Painting’s Obsolescence
My admiration for Stanely Whitney’s resoluteness has increased over the years, as well as my sense of his growing authority as a masterful colorist.
Art
The Wild World of the Hairy Who
The Chicago version of Pop Art, embodied in the work of the Hairy Who, is sweaty, nervous, sometimes giggly or goofy.
Art
The Everyday Madness of Picasso’s “Acrobat on a Ball”
What a nimble feat of balance and strength it is to build a dream.
Art
Coming to Terms with Tragedy Through Art
For the past 10 years, painter, author, and illustrator Daniel Minter has raised awareness of the forced removal in 1911 of an interracial community on Maine's Malaga Island.
Art
Deconstructing Race in Western Painting
The most interesting part of this excellent exhibition is its presentation of black modernists, for here we enter relatively unfamiliar territory.
Art
Techno-Gothic Sculptures of Violence
In his latest exhibition, Belfast-born sculptor Tim Shaw explores the troubles of Northern Ireland, global terrorism, abuses of power, and artificial intelligence.