Art
Māori Portraits Offer a Window into New Zealand’s Colonial History
Gottfried Lindauer's portraits present a collective history of colonial New Zealand, capturing individual identities in a time of great social change and upheaval.
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Books
Reader’s Diary: It Was a Colorful Year
Darby English’s new book 1971 decries black nationalist demands for a unified artistic community in favor of abstraction, individualism, and personal autonomy.
Art
Julia Fish’s Sense of Passage
We are not likely to stop and ponder the things we daily pass by and over, but Julia Fish clearly does.
Art
Three Photographers and What They Show Us About Everyday Life: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Other than their use of a camera, these photographers appear to have little in common, which I think is a good thing.
Books
In Its Own Faint Language: On Don Mee Choi’s 'Hardly War'
Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”
Art
Unmet Promises: Gay Gotham at the Museum of the City of New York
As I walked through the two floors of the museum I kept asking myself, where am I in this celebration of upper-class gay white male creativity?
Art
Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum
Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
Art
Objects that Manifest the Contradictions of American History
Sam Durant’s exhibition Build Therefore Your Own World at Blum & Poe examines and creates points of connection between the transcendentalists and African Americans.
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A Soon-to-Be-Hidden Artwork in NYC Spells Out the Realities of Native American Life
Duane Linklater's exhibition at 80WSE asks us to consider how knowledge and tradition are transmitted.
Art
The Subtle Madness of Larry Poons and Jean Dubuffet
Who would have thought that Dubuffet's “art brut” style would eventually find an affinity with the gritty, unconventional large-scale paintings Poons made three decades later?
Art
A Nomadic Artist's Journey Through the Ancient History of a French City
Anna Boghiguian's exhibition in Nîmes draws inspiration from the city's history, from its days as a Roman outpost to its important role in the global textile industry.
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How Mierle Laderman Ukeles Turned Maintenance Work into Art
Best known as the artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, the septuagenarian Ukeles is having her first full retrospective, at the Queens Museum.