Art Review
Luis Fernando Benedit Exposed the Politics of World-Making
The artist’s bioart habitats eerily reflect human environments where sociopolitical and socioeconomic cultural conditions force the illusion of standardization as a natural state.
Review
Art Review
Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language
Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.
Art Review
What Can Art Expose About Us?
Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.
Art Review
Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol
The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.
Art Review
Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity
Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.
Art Review
The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.
Book Review
Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World
A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.
Art
From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance
While other Bay Area spaces have silenced Palestinian artists or remained silent themselves, a show at SOMArts Cultural Center asks visitors to take a stand.
Art Review
A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.
Film Review
A Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four Years
Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.
Art Review
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Refuse to Forget
As the US government expunges identities through words and names, the artists’ online archive of videos proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act.
Art Review
An Artist Captures Life’s Relentless Too-Muchness
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you.