Art
In the 13-screen video installation Manifesto, Cate Blanchett plays sharply different characters while reading polemical 20th-century manifestos. Her transformation is astonishing.
Books
A publication released by Aperture offers a subjective overview of photobooks from China, from the 1900s to today.
Books
Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.
Art
Some painters — following in the footsteps of Arthur Dove — offer us received images of transcendence. John Dilg isn’t one of them.
Art
I liked Outside In because I found out what five artists whose works I have followed are doing these days.
Art
An unusual gallery installation in Manhattan raises questions about belonging.
Art
Katharina Wulff grew up in East Berlin and moved to Marrakesh some fifteen years ago. Her work reflects her situation amid the elaborate, distinctly Islamic decoration that adorns traditional architecture in Morocco.
Art
The beautiful large-scale retrospective of this major but often forgotten artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a truly revelatory exhibition.
Art
Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.
Art
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
Art
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.
Art
The sculptures on view in White Column's project room feel like the results of a lot of daydreaming by Joe Howe, who is now 87.