Art Review
The School of Visual Arts MFA Show Is a Portrait of Our Zeitgeist
The artists in this year’s cohort are responding in their own way to our uncertain times, with some offering possibilities for blazing a trail ahead.
Review
Art Review
A Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family
A show highlighting work by members of the collective fierce pussy presents them not out on the streets, but communing with one another, like family.
Film Review
The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed to eclipse the man, according to his own family.
Art Review
The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
What comes through most strongly in the Met Museum exhibition is his humanistic bent: Sargent loved people, and it shows.
Art Review
Exhibition at Children’s Museum Decolonizes Color
All That Remains spotlights mostly non-White artists who open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.
Art Review
The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
Book Review
The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism
Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.
Art Review
Galleries That Play the “Responsibility” Game
This commercial undertaking works hard to present itself with an institutional veneer, making claims that it “fosters a sense of shared responsibility” in the art world.
Art Review
The Trailblazing 20th-Century Photographer History Forgot
Consuelo Kanaga, one of the US’s first female photojournalists, counted Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Berenice Abbott as her peers.
Art Review
The Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing
Real Clothes, Real Lives shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate their daily activities with resourcefulness and panache.
Art Review
The Contested History of American Labor
An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular but the continuation of one long, long fight.
Art Review
What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?
Poetics of Power, grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized, male-dominated spheres of power and opposed to all forms of exploitation.