Art
Within Gallery Walls, an Artist Channels the Ghosts of Marginalized Women
LONDON — It’s hard to fit the afterlife within a white cube.
Review
Art
Drinking Tea with Tom Sachs
I'm eating a single Ritz cracker, its underbelly embellished with a creamy wave of peanut butter.
Books
Reader's Diary: Daniel Hoffman's ‘Next to Last Words’
On its last day of existence — or, more particularly, on a day after its last day, when it reopened just for this purpose — the St. Mark’s Bookshop sold off all of its remaining stock at $2 a copy.
Art
Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart
Dufresne’s drawings are humorous, whimsical, tender, odd, sarcastic, fantastic, sympathetic, and sweet. She celebrates the wacky and wonderful side of human behavior when overtaken by erotic passion, as well as reaches inexplicable places in our imagination.
Art
The Music Must Go On
I don’t think it is hard to understand why Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s pencil drawings depict dejected, often isolated figures from a domain that is simultaneously fairy tale, horror story, and dream.
Art
Beer with a Painter: Bill Scott
Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interactions with the students.
Art
Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light
I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.
Art
Elise Ansel’s Ab-Ex Annunciation
The stated goal of New York City-born, Portland, Maine-based painter Elise Ansel is “re-creating, re-visioning, and re-presenting” paintings from the past.
Art
Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’
Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.
Art
Fearless Symmetries: Judith Braun’s Carbon-Based Art Forms
The unclassifiable drawings of Judith Braun are now on view in two concurrent, very different solo exhibitions.
Performance
Six Characters in Search of a Puppetmaster
Luigi Pirandello's iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month.
Art
Minimal, Alienating Works That Aren’t Blind to Tradition
In an alley between Greene Naftali gallery and a walled parking lot under the High Line, sit two Haegue Yang installations.