Art Review
MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting
The survey, which happens every five years, rejects the out-of-towner’s glossy surfaces in favor of the view from inside.
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Book Review
The Unnameable Artists of the Canton Trade System
In a book on Qing-era trade portraitists whose names are lost to history, Winnie Wong shows us how our restless pursuits of authenticity guide us into pitfalls of our own making.
Art Review
Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name
For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy corrects the record.
Art Review
Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd
He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.
Book Review
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
“On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution.
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It’s Gabriele Münter’s World, We’re Just Living in It
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
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David Novros’s Portable Murals
Instead of being an object against the wall, Novros made his intricate, multi-paneled paintings with it in mind.
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Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
Book Review
In “Discipline,” Larissa Pham Explores Predatory Art-World Mentorship
The art critic and former painter reinvents the genre’s well-trod territory in her debut novel, which makes heartbreakingly acute the consequences of teacher-student relationships.
Art Review
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Made Human Again
Learning about Cha was like a secret revelation handed down among Asian American artists and poets. This show helped me appreciate her more clearly.
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The Unbearable Strangeness of Being
In Cinga Samson’s haunted paintings, we do not know what we are looking at, or where we are.
Art Review
LA Artists Honor Dolores Huerta’s Defiant Spirit
In honor of the labor leader’s 96th birthday, over 30 Los Angeles artists pay homage to her lifelong fight for the rights and dignity of everyday people.