Art
Class Disjunctions: Dutch Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Even to the trained eye, there is something unrelenting about most seventeenth-century Dutch art.
Review
Art
Mapping the Body: Mark Bradford’s New Work
Three years ago I wrote a review titled “Is Mark Bradford the Best Painter in America?” It wasn’t an altogether serious question, but it wasn’t facetious either.
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At Performa, Two Poets Make Online Language Flexible and Freeing
Poetry readings aren't popular, or easy.
Art
Making Space for Painting in Mexico City, Where Conceptual Art Reigns
MEXICO CITY — In places like Mexico City, where conceptual art with an overt socio-political agenda currently dominates, media such as sculpture, drawing, and painting go completely unnoticed, seen as vain expressions belonging to an expired avant-garde.
Art
Inside Richard Diebenkorn's Revelatory Sketchbooks
STANFORD, Calif. — A small gallery at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center is currently offering a deeply personal glimpse into the life and work of Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn.
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At the Venice Biennale, the Philippine Pavilion Favors Beauty Over Ugly Truths
VENICE — “People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” infamously asked “Iron Butterfly” Imelda Marcos in the eponymous 2003 documentary Imelda.
Film
Among Intimates at New York's Queer Experimental Film Festival
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.
Art
Mining the Rich Interspace Between Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
CAPE TOWN — In Black Passage, Nitegeka deploys wood and paint to literally and boldly take over the gallery, arranging his forms into the white, tamed, and profoundly coded space.
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Glittery Sylphs, Decorated Camels, Cracked Earthen Paintings, and Botched Machismo
DALLAS — While heterogeneous in form, cultural reference, and concept, the four exhibitions at the center of the Dallas Contemporary 2015 season openers stand together seamlessly.
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At the New Museum, Jim Shaw Plays Artist and Curator
The title of Jim Shaw’s current retrospective at the New Museum, The End is Here, comes from the title of his first zine made in 1978, displayed in a vitrine on the first floor of the exhibition.
Art
An Archival and Artistic Exploration of Transgender Identity
Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics illustrates not just the multiplicity of transgender identities but the many forms of expression those identities take.
Art
Two Artists Paint Through Different Philosophies
I don’t know about you, but I experience adulthood as an unremitting crisis of faith, and I look to art for examples of how to better think about what I’m doing.