Art
Drawing the Fragile Vulnerability of Transitioning Bodies
Roey Heifetz’s layers of lacquer, powder, and pigment, and lines upon lines of intensive, unsettling drawing, lacerate the gallery with pain, obsession, and passion.
Review
Performance
A Disco-Pop Take on ‘Medea' Unfolds Across Multiple Stages and Screens
Yara Travieso’s staging of La Medea at the Coil festival was several shows at once — the performers themselves, live video, and other audience members, who were at times invited to join in the dance.
Books
Reader’s Diary: The Porn of Poetry
Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt Norton isn’t exactly pornography, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Music
Critical Distance: Car Seat Headrest, Solange, Danny Brown, Christine and the Queens
As most adolescents across the nation sit in their bedrooms and agonize over the eternal question, what do boys/girls like, some of us have more unfortunate and inconsequential concerns: what do critics like?
Performance
Body in Mind: Live Performance in Prototype, Under the Radar, and American Realness
While this year some pieces isolated participants through technology, others relished their theatricality and fed off the physical presence of live performers.
Art
The Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark
Ed Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to.
Art
Ming Smith’s Necessary Angels
The rich and varied evocation of passing moments, memories, and dreams that we encounter in Ming Smith’s photographs are things that the incoming President will continue to denigrate and do his best to erase.
Art
Great Balls of Fire: Arthur Jafa at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Set to Kanye West’s languorously sublime hip hop gospel track, “Ultralight Beam,” the visuals in Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute film alternate between eruptions of joy and violence.
Art
Light Makes Things Real
Louise Belcourt’s work has a remarkable ability to make two-dimensional paintings feel three-dimensional.
Art
The Use and Abuse of Paint: ‘Fast Forward’ at the Whitney
The museum should be commended for shining a light on painting, but the show feels like a missed opportunity.
Art
Jenny Holzer’s Blowtorch in the Darkness
When going too far is barely enough.
Art
The Beekeeper Who Craved a World Without Right Angles
A man obsessed with hexagons tried to remake the visual world around him.