Books
Can We Free Ourselves From Algorithms?
In Filterworld, Kyle Chayka proposes that the algorithmically driven, primarily digital nature of how we consume culture has rendered culture homogenous.
Review
Art
Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.
Books
How Blue Paper Revolutionized the Art of Drawing
Drawing on Blue provides a glimpse into the genesis of the tinted paper as a new vehicle for expression in European art.
Art
Two Views of a Family Breakfast
Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are.
Art
Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
Art
The Maverick Art of Richard Artschwager
Although the artist’s work had affinities with Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, it did not fit into these categories or any others.
Art
The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
Don’t come to Unnamed Figures expecting to see pictures of Black people sitting comfortably alongside words like “empowerment” or “excellence.”
Art
Tracey Emin’s Portrait of Love After Death
What elevates Emin’s Lovers Grave above standard meditations on love and loss is the artist’s awareness of her own mortality.
Art
The Wandering Soul of Oklahoma Artists
The theme of Oklahoma as a source of inspiration for artists runs through the entirety of The Soul Is a Wanderer at Oklahoma Contemporary.
Art
Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
Art
The Resounding Talents of a Quiet Renaissance Master
Perhaps Pesellino lacked a certain ferocity of ambition — those who choose not to shout from the rooftops often fail to get heard.
Art
Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.