Art
Women’s Oppression Is the Earth’s Oppression
The work on gender and ecology in RE/SISTERS at the Barbican suggests that it is time to re-examine and re-engage with ecofeminism.
Review
Books
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels
Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.
Art
Dreaming of Eternities in the 14th Shanghai Biennale
The biennale dives into ancient cosmologies, current issues, and futurist dreams through a cinematic lens.
Art
In His Final Works, Brice Marden Found Freedom
The artist, who passed away this year, finally let go of his desire for control and perfection without surrendering his self-imposed restraints.
Art
A Tantalizing Glimpse Into a Renaissance Art Family Drama
Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico offer hints of whatever subterranean Oedipal struggles played out between them.
Art
The Eternal Life of Stone in Art
It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.
Art
Celebrated and Unsung Histories of French Abstraction
Is it not social practice to provide an experience in which a different kind of attention and, above all, a different kind of thinking is demanded?
Art
Steve DiBenedetto’s Art Embraces Incoherence
I can think of few other artists who, through the process of painting, are willing to place their work in jeopardy by denying the viewer a definition or resolution.
Art
Carla Williams Takes Ownership of the Gaze
Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.
Art
Michelle Uckotter’s Uncanny Vision of Trans Womanhood
In her visceral works, Uckotter examines a version of trans womanhood unseen in most mainstream narratives.
Art
The Time Has Come for Artist-Mothers
Fruits of Labor at Apexart features eight artist-mothers whose work, directly and indirectly, is shaped by motherhood.
Art
Abel Alejandre’s Chicano Cosmologies
A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”