Books
Drenching Found Negatives in Washes of Vivid Color
After discovering a series of negatives in an abandoned skyscraper in St. Louis, Aaron Farley altered the degraded images with caustic colors.
Review
Art
Collaged Paintings with Presence
Dona Nelson's works are literally made to stand up for themselves, bolted to wooden platforms and staged in coteries of pictorial bodies.
Art
Treasures from the Met Ascend to Its Roof in a Scramble of Art History
Adrián Villar Rojas has transformed the open-air space into a dystopian banquet hall where culture is the main meal, long-ago consumed.
Art
Romare Bearden’s Mythic Collages, Rooted in the American South
The characters of Romare Bearden's collages, on view now at DC Moore Gallery, form a kind of pantheon, a great mythological scheme particular only to the black American South.
Books
A Graphic Memoir About Learning to Cope with What's Left Behind
Kristen Radtke’s graphic memoir uses photos and the death of her uncle as touchstones to illustrate parallel forms of decay and loss.
Art
Honolulu’s New Biennial Makes the Case for Hawaiian Contemporary Art
Honolulu's first biennial, The Middle of Now | Here, is a challenge to the notion that Hawaii is “in the middle of nowhere.”
Books
From Ceramic Sea Creatures to Bauhaus Blocks, a Compendium of Exquisite Chess Sets
A new book features detailed photos and short essays about an eclectic range of elaborate chess sets from across multiple centuries and continents.
Books
A Graphic Memoir About Growing Up with Modernist Playgrounds
Julia Jacquette's Playground of My Mind is a graphic memoir of growing up with the modernist playgrounds of Manhattan, and how their concrete geometries influenced her later art.
Film
Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Prank Is a Documentary About His Life and Work
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist's elaborate sculptural jokes.
Art
Miniature Dioramas That Contain the Chaos of the World
From a patchwork of shantytowns to retail spaces, Tracey Snelling's miniature worlds describe the disorder of life and offer a compelling argument that the way we inhabit space is subjective.
Books
A Comprehensive and Contemporary Guide to Figurative Drawing
Figurative artists know the importance of learning “the rules” before they break them, which is precisely the opportunity this book intends to offer its most ambitious readers.
Art
The Avant-Garde Oeuvre of a Classically Trained Sculptor from North Korea
Seung-taek Lee is one of the most fascinating and deeply committed artists of this generation.