Review

Art

How Raoul Hausmann Went From Dada Provocateur to Sensual and Earnest Photographer

For Hausmann, who was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, realist nature photography became a preferred means of his post-Dada expression, picked up during his sojourns to the North Sea and Baltic coasts in the early 1930s.

Art

Beauty and Disunity in Two Visions of the United States

The work of Teresita Fernandez and Nari Ward presents two contradictory views of the United States — one of the most hopeful, and one of the least.

Art

Why Most People Don't Get Grant Wood

This exhibition of work by Grant Wood at the Whitney Museum, offers an opportunity to reconsider a very unusual artist who has been pigeonholed as irretrievably conservative and sentimental.

Art

Reverent Photos of Young Punks and Their Irrepressible Mohawks

There’s a casual, almost candid quality in Ed Templeton's photos. His subjects look “cool,” most likely because he himself thinks that they are.

Art

An Artist Entangles Performance, Process, and Wire Sculpture

Tith Kanitha is known for her sculptures of steel wire that read like artifacts from some forgotten, ancient civilization, but she also stages performances and works in film.

Film

An Artist Excavates the Neglected Histories of a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Detroit

Nicole MacDonald’s Last Days of Chinatown hones in on the displacement of the poor and “unimportant” people to accommodate the march of progress in Detroit.

Art

The Bewildering Lexicon of Robert Gober

Is Gober taking stock and summing up his life at his latest exhibition at Matthew Marks? If so, he sure is breaking new ground while at it.

Art

The Japanese-American Painter Who Chronicled Early 20th-Century Life in the US

Chiura Obata's stirring paintings invite us to consider the representation of persecution and distress from the point of view of an immigrant in the early 20th century.

Art

A Botanic Garden Invited Artists to Transform Centuries-Old Trees Felled by a Storm

After dozens of trees — some as old as 250 years — came down in Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Gardens last October, woodcarvers gave them new life.

Art

Unearthing Centuries of Interdependence Between Humans and Plants

Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World explores how humans have historically understood the plant world, and how we ought to reconsider it as we degrade the planet.

Art

Whale Paintings Evoke the Giant Mammals' Suffering and Scarring

Juliette Dumas's large-scale paintings of whales' flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.

Art

The Remarkable and Polyglot Design Legacy of Ilonka Karasz

Ilonka Karasz’s designs span from the 1910s to the 1970s, across multiple media: textiles, industrial design, and illustration, including several New Yorker covers, all with a keen sense of the prevailing zeitgeist, and yet, I had never heard of her.