Art
Déjà Vu: Mark Williams’s Positive Echo
Mark Williams paints within the tradition of geometric abstraction and considers Agnes Martin, El Lissitsky, and Kazimir Malevich among his “art ancestors.”
Review
Art
“Art” at the Science Museum: 'Da Vinci — The Genius' in Boston
In this age of fake news and climate change denial, we should be seeking to educate the public on scientific method rather than promulgating faulty science in the name of infotainment.
Art
Chuck Webster’s Breakthrough
I have been following Chuck Webster’s work since his first show at Zieher Smith in 2003, where he employed different mediums on different kinds of antique and found paper. It was obvious to me that Webster loved to draw in both dry and liquid mediums, anything capable of making a line.
Art
The Solitude and Sensuality of an Artist's Studio
Paul Mpagi Sepuya's exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery illuminates the intimate terrains of the artist's studio life.
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.
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Gavin Turk's Outdated Provocations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.