Art
In Plains Indians Exhibition, Met Museum Favors Beauty Over Context
The Metropolitan Museum has mounted a show of 137 rare pieces of art of the Plains Indians, on loan from 58 different international collections.
Review
Art
The Private Language of Painting, Revealed in Artists’ Images of Their Studios
Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed at West 21st Street).
Film
The Fine Line Between Fiction and Truth in the Art of the Reel
Real, surreal, not quite real, a spectacular con — truth is found in many forms.
Art
Brenda Goodman’s Recent Paintings
I want to believe that this is the beginning of the art world’s real and enduring appreciation of Brenda Goodman’s hard won achievement.
Art
Imagining the Ordinary: Heatherwick Studio at the Hammer Museum
With its new show, Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, portrays itself as a kind of exploratory museum.
Art
Recurring Waves of Arrival: Elaine de Kooning’s Portraits, from Loft Dwellers to JFK
I felt as if I were actually seeing that elusive moment in her perception when the person standing or sitting before her passed from patchwork anonymity into an emergent distinctiveness.
Art
Back to the Future with Steve DiBenedetto
Steve DiBenedetto’s current exhibition, Mile High Psychiatry, at Derek Eller marks a breakthrough for a painter who is best known for his encrusted surfaces jam-packed with helicopters, octopi and neural networks.
Art
The Fantastical Paradoxes of Afrofuturist Film
Imaginative, aesthetic, historically fixated, and cosmically liberated, afrofuturism could be subject to low budgets, racism, sexism, and indifference, and still count itself a master of radiant ideas.
Art
Paintings that Get (Kind of) Close to South Africa’s Colonial Aftermath
KINDERHOOK, NY — Meleko Mokgosi’s eponymous solo show, well installed at The School, Jack Shainman gallery's outpost in Kinderhook, New York, will hit your sweet spot if you're in the mood to see some colossal paintings in an atrium-like space that can compete with Dia:Beacon (but with paintings).
Art
Tripping Through a Luxurious Post-Human Future
A golden reindeer gallops across a vast checkerboard while a grotesque UFO flies overhead.
Art
Make, Step, Repeat: Bruce Nauman Is Out of Ideas
PARIS — Bruce Nauman at the Fondation Cartier is a hip, hodgepodge mini-retrospective, curated by Hervé Chandè, that sets an array of Nauman’s works against each other, ranging from the '80s to the rather recent.
Art
Artists Serve Up the Radical Power of Eating
MINNEAPOLIS — I have to admit, I was a little wary of going to see an art exhibition that I presumed would consist of leftovers from a one-off, amazing, artist-led dinner, a show littered with lengthy documents about a great event I missed.