Art
Essenhigh reveals a freedom that resonates with all manner of fusion: of figure and design, of abstraction and narrative, of sentiment and humor, and more generally, of ambitious painting with a readable narrative.
Art
"If you are of African descent and your ancestors were part of the slave trade, you have issues which are alive today.”
Art
Spending time in Laurie Anderson's “The Chalkroom” reminded me of Terry Gilliam’s film, Time Bandits, where what seems like an endless landscape is revealed to be a mirror when someone breaks it.
Art
Students of the 2018 MFA class are presenting strong work at the Wallach Art Gallery, many of them building large installations around their pieces.
Art
The connection to between Lauren Kalman’s specific body and the process she has undergone to produce these objects is laid out in graphic terms.
Art
Jean Fautrier was a subtle, solitary, strange, serene, and even severe French painter who experienced a good deal of suspension in his saw-tooth-shaped career.
Art
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.
Film
Narrated in Italian by actor Toni Servillo and directed by Claudio Poli, the film somewhat drowsily recounts the madness of the Nazi’s quest to first sanitize, and then steal the art of Europe.
Art
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
Art
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.
Art
Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.
Art
In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco's poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler's photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.