Books
Sprechen Sie Kunst? How to Speak German in the Art World
If you need to talk to a hotshot Berlin gallerist or send an invitation to curator Okuwei Enzewor, then we have found the book for you.
Review
Books
Designing Products from Dung, Dust, and Other Strange and Sustainable Materials
By far the most compelling chapter, likely because the category teeters between human and natural waste, is "Shit, Hair, Dust." (The shock factor doesn't hurt, either.)
Art
A Minimalist Transformation of Minimalism
Otis Jones proves that painting’s parameters continue to be commodious — even reductive painting has not been used up.
Art
Deana Lawson’s Iconoclastic Portraits
Lawson confronts viewers with multifaceted visions of black identity, as embodied by strangers and neighbors alike, with whom she has established an intense rapport.
Art
The Politics of Sound in a Prison
Lawrence Abu Hamdan attempts to reconstruct the psycho-physical conditions in which prisoners lived at Syria’s Saydnaya prison by using recorded testimonials.
Art
Refereeing Trump
Richard Kraft has classified Trump’s daily actions “in the fashion of a soccer referee,” assigning yellow and red cards to the President’s conduct.
Art
The Mesmerizing Mundane Objects of Ordinary North Korean Life
With North Korea so often discussed only in terms of extremes, this exhibit's focus on the mundane is what makes it so fascinating.
Art
Tantalizing Quilts Woven with Poetic, Political Messages
The artists in Piecework embed intriguing, coded messages into their quilts.
Art
An Art Collection Fit for an Executed King
Underpinning this exhibition of work from the collection of the executed king is a focused arrangement that allows the political events of the time to be told through the narrative of the collection’s history.
Art
Paintings of Toxic Landscapes Where Politics and Aesthetics Are in Perfect Balance
Greg Lindquist's landscape paintings, rendered in a range of queasy-making yellows and greens, address air and water pollution from coal-powered plant emissions.
Film
40 Strangers Meet in a Deeply Uncomfortable Documentary
In Leigh Ledare's new film The Task, his subjects are not only aware of their participation in an art project, but openly speak about it.
Art
A Symphony of Delicate and Colorful Concrete Forms
Cathy Hsiao's concrete sculptures, currently on view at Chicago gallery Goldfinch, possess a surprising airiness.