Art
Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
Review
Art
Pippa Garner's Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender
Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
Books
A Study of Art Galleries Reveals Their Aesthetic of Transcendental Experience
David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.
Art
The Persistence of Things in a Japanese Minimalist’s Installations
Why things persist might be a question most relegated to the realm of philosophy, but I think it’s germane to Kishio Suga’s installations at Dia in Chelsea.
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A Fictional Nudist Colony Where Postcolonial Tensions Are Laid Bare
Alex Nguyen-Vo's paintings imagine a resort where nude Westerners frolic care-free, oblivious to the power dynamics of their tropical paradise.
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The Tactile Temptation of Ray Johnson's Assemblages
Ray Johnson's exhibition at Matthew Marks is proof that the eccentric collage and mail artist's works were never meant for gallery walls.
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Surreal Arrangements of Bare Limbs and Suggestive Fruit
In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
Art
As Dakota Access Pipeline Leaks, Native Artists Examine Contested Landscapes
In My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, artists grapple with forcible resource extraction on indigenous lands.
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Hybrid Dance Works That Get Intimate with the Audience
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, a launchpad for contemporary choreographers, seems to be making an effort to stretch its boundaries.
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An Interdisciplinary Look at the Differences Between Human and Artificial Sight
The first special exhibition at the newly reopened Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami explores how brains, eyes, and artificial intelligence perceive the world.
Film
A Post-Punk ’80s Sci-Fi Film Explores NYC’s Nightlife
The only surviving 35mm print of Slava Tsukerman’s cult film Liquid Sky will have its final public screenings at Quad Cinema before being permanently retired.
Art
Artists Dream Up Digital Dystopias
A group show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg imagines an unknown future full of sleek techno-chaos.