Art
The Troubling Delight of Feminine Monsters
Bonnie Lucas's exhibition at JTT features surreal gouaches and playful assemblages that mess with the social conventions of girl- and womanhood.
Review
Books
A New Louise Nevelson Biography Picks Apart the Artist's Contradictions
Laurie Wilson, practicing psychologist and art historian, has penned a new biography of the ground-breaking artist Louise Nevelson.
Film
The Banality of Concentration Camp Tourism
We are attracted to the places where bad things have happened, but we rarely reflect on what actually occurred therein.
Art
An Artist Draws Out America's Buried and Fenced-off Toxic Sites
The artist Joan Linder makes exhaustive, panoramic drawings of toxic and radioactive sites in the United States, gathering a record of government indifference as she goes.
Art
Meditative Light Art with Dark Undertones
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
Art
Responding to Human Remains with Crocheted Skeletons and Beaded Organs
Sabrina Small and Caitlin McCormack explore the life and decay of the human body in sculptural fiber art at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
Art
Mocking Materialism with Collage
In his exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, David Shrobe uses the nonsensical and irrational as tonics for the relentless instrumentalization of what we purchase and consume.
Art
Gavin Turk's Outdated Provocations
An exhibition of Turk's works in the London museum of fellow Young British Artist Damien Hirst fails to make a case for the longevity of his art historical in-jokes.
Art
Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention
In the artist's intervention at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.
Art
An Artist Excavates the Past Lives of a Gallery's Building
Leyla Cárdenas examines the physical and historical layers of the spaces in which she works, studying their fragments and the experiences lived therein.
Art
Peace and Grief in the Art of US Veterans
The exhibition Not Alone provides access to a complicated and difficult subject matter that intends to open up and bridge dialogue between civilians and those who have served.
Art
Photographic Portraits of Transgender Life in the West Village
In his new body of work, Mark Seliger, who is primarily a celebrity photographer, engages with the trans people in his own neighborhood.