Book Review
The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.
Review
Film Review
Diaries of a Chairwoman
Juliette Lewis turns into a chair in a film that critiques mass culture’s conflation of femininity with consumerism and envy.
Art Review
The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy
The varied, confrontational works on view at Madrid's La Casa Encendida are reminders of the intense labor required to protect liberty.
Book Review
Chipping Away at the Facade of Mount Rushmore
In “Biography of a Mountain,” author Matthew Davis deftly weaves together interviews and stories that reveal so much more than a linear narrative of the monument’s history.
Art Review
A Cold Plunge Into Glenn Ligon’s Blue
New works exemplify a line of inquiry central to the artist’s practice: How might language and color merge to birth figuration?
Art Review
Squeak Carnwath Paints Her Own Path
This artist rejects the notion that paint as a medium inevitably becomes exhausted, incapable of making something, however broken it may be.
Art Review
Marigold Santos Takes Root
She uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.
Art Review
The Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck
The Finnish artist’s first major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging.
Art Review
We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives
The best work in the Bronx Museum’s biennial indicates aspirations beyond this time and place.
Art Review
Ocean Vuong Is a Legitimately Good Photographer
One might assume that his photography is the nepo baby of his writing, but this is genuinely a great show.
Book Review
How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
Art Review
John Altoon’s Fever Dream Drawings
After a stint in 1950s New York, the LA-based artist abandoned abstraction and painting in favor of dreamlike, sexually charged drawings.