Art
Wrestling with the “Forces of Wickedness” Along 8 Mile Road
DETROIT — Saturday, May 28 was a staggeringly hot day out along 8 Mile Road, where, just before three in the afternoon, a somewhat anomalous crowd of people began to gather.
Review
Art
The Ineffectiveness of Words and Other Boundaries
The recently closed exhibition by Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman gallery is the documentation of a peculiar work made two years ago and installed in contested locations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Art
A Touch of Autobiography in Cindy Sherman’s New Classic Hollywood Portraits
The beauty of walking into a Cindy Sherman exhibition is that there is always a new group of women there waiting for you on the wall, asking you to understand and explore their lives.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Catherine Texier’s ‘Russian Lessons’
It’s so hard to read a friend’s book without prejudice.
Art
A Truly Great Artist
At once compassionate and angry, empathetic and satirical, tender and tough, Nicole Eisenman is a storyteller, portraitist, social chronicler, allegorist, fantasist, utopian dreamer and history painter, to name just a handful of her many artistic identities.
Art
Something New Under the Sun
Richard Van Buren studied ceramics at Mexico City College. Later, he moved to San Francisco, where he studied at San Francisco State (1961–64).
Art
Repairing the Damage of Haste: The Still Point and Stir of William Bailey
Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey's meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.
Music
Fatima al Qadiri's Poetry of Terror and Protest
Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
Art
In Hannelore Baron’s Art, a Voice of Defiant Hope and Survival
Can art born of unspeakable horrors express something other than the soul-scarring pain and trauma that forever mark its creator?
Art
Myth, Flesh, and Three Paintings by Charles Garabedian
There is a small exhibition in memory of Charles Garabedian (1923 - 2016) currently at Sidecar, the adjoining annex space of Betty Cuningham Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Art
A Claymation Moonscape Covered in Ruins
Animated by Meghan Tryon, psych-rock band Wand's new "Passage of the Dream" video fuses claymation with line drawings and paper cutouts in a densely detailed fantasy narrative.
Art
A Flock of Rotary Phones Chirps and Purrs in a Brooklyn Basement
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.