Art Review
An Artist Duo’s Haven of Synthetic Hair
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures.
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Art Review
Danielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at Rest
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.
Book Review
The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
As a dyke, I particularly cherished this portrait of queer entanglement characterized by duration and valences beyond the sexual or romantic.
Art Review
Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry
He emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.
Art Review
Portrait of a Papal Artist
In Rome, an exhibition explores Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s relationship to his most powerful patron, Pope Urban VIII.
Art Review
The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing
An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well.
Film Review
The Best Part of “Moss & Freud” Is When It’s Over
In the film, Kate Moss is looking for the right man to get her sober, and Lucian Freud is a Great Man who magically sees the “truth” in young women.
Art Review
Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology
She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist.
Art Review
Nicola Florimbi’s Paintings Are Unsettling and Necessary
Her depictions of individuals in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment represent one of many engaging paradoxes.
Art Review
Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York
Her photographs showcase an intensely physical side of the city: breaking down boxes to dance upon, spray-painting subway cars.
Book Review
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Art Review
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.