Books
A New Keith Haring Biography Leaves Out Half the Story
Radiant is a bountiful source of information about the late queer artist’s life and career, but it says oddly little about his art and its enduring legacy.
Review
Art
Xiyadie’s Papercut Love Letters
Butterfly Dream speaks eloquently of the artist’s loves and losses, his public burdens and private desires.
Art
Isabel Quintanilla’s Dreamy Realism
The same small Duralex glass cup appears repeatedly in the artist’s sparse and intimate still lifes, evincing her uncanny ability to capture light.
Art
The Echoes of Russian Atrocities in Two Venice Pavilions
The Venice Biennale’s Polish and Russian pavilions are both showing work by foreign countries, but their intentions and results couldn’t be more different.
Art
How Should Art History Judge Angelica Kauffman's Work?
Though technically proficient, the painter and Royal Academy cofounder owed a great deal of contemporary recognition to her active social networking.
Film
The Strange Intimacy of Unregulated Sperm Donations
With Spermworld Lance Oppenheim deconstructs the subculture of unregulated sperm donations to reveal how they reflect universal experiences.
Art
Expressionists Great and Not So Great
Expressionists felt that art had the capacity to heal, to cross-fertilize, to challenge fixed ideas — it could make the world anew.
Art
A Venice Show Centers Disability Justice
Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.
Art
The Fibers That Make Up Our Lives
Textile techniques serve as medium and metaphor in Unravel at the Barbican Centre, conveying possibilities for art and resistance.
Art
Shanequa Gay Completes a Work Begun a Century Ago
Gateway to the South is cemented firmly in the South and within the artist’s own ancestry.
Art
Migration Stories From World War II to Now
The fact that more than a fifth of Utica’s residents were born outside the US inspires the group show Between Worlds at the Munson Museum.
Art
Goya and Dix Just Needed a Rainbow
The problem with a show in Venice on war is the insistence that there had to be a bit of hope too — and the hopeful element of this show is feeble, if not schmalzy.