Art
Yinka Shonibare MBE Navigates Prejudice and Dual Identity
Yinka Shonibare MBE has focused on two primary concerns throughout his career: his perspective on “otherness” and his awareness of the subtle intricacies of prejudice.
Review
Art
R. B. Kitaj Hugs a Ghost
One thing that has bugged critics of Kitaj is that his work can be simultaneously accessible and full of allusions.
Art
Ron Gorchov’s Guardians
In responding to Judd and Greenberg, it is apparent that Gorchov wanted to find his own way past what he saw as the limits of their theorizing and make something that was recognizably his.
Performance
A Play Models the Human Cost of Our Economic Ecosystem
Labyrinth Theater Company’s Dolphins and Sharks centers on the necessity of wage labor and the human relations our system engenders.
Art
Like Long-Held Echoes: On Two Projects Made Possible by the Waste Stream
Philli, Ana Peñalba’s current exhibition in The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, presents photographs that re-create a number of iconic buildings in Philadelphia, including the PMA and Robert Venturi’s Guild House, with detritus found at Revolution Recovery, a recycling yard in the city’s
Art
Jamaica Report: A Biennial, Bragging Rights — and the World’s Largest Drum?
“Jamaica, no problem!” a local adage advises, serving as a reminder that, here, life unfolds, and big events like biennial art exhibitions materialize according to their own rhythms and in their own good time.
Art
A Forest of Chaos and Control
Trees frequently figure in Oehlen’s work. As a formal device, it allows freedom of invention, but the invention is structured by internal logic.
Books
A New Guide Maps the Overlooked Brutalism of Paris
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
Books
The Radical Posters of a British Women’s Art Workshop
The See Red Women’s Workshop, which ran from 1974 to 1990, began with a newspaper ad calling for female visual artists "to combat images of the ‘model woman.’”
Art
Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries
Picturing Math at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has prints dating back to the 15th century, all expressing the beauty of mathematics.
Performance
A Performance Unpacks Our Relationship to the Things We Keep Boxed Up
Before Geoff Sobelle's performance The Object Lesson begins, the audience is invited to riffle through the hundreds of boxes piled high around the theater.
Art
The Kinetic Possibilities of Salvaged Furniture
Dre Britton breaks down quotidian structures and rebuilds them, yielding constructions that are both vaguely familiar and vaguely alien.