Art Review
Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile
Michelle Im’s disconcerting ceramic figures subvert ornamentalized representations of East Asian femininity.
Reviews
Art Review
Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
A fundamental part of Overstreet's mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.
Book Review
The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph
Time Machines reveals entanglements between the largely forgotten optical telegraph and artistic movements in 19th-century France.
Art Review
Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake
A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle.
Art Review
Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.
Art Review
Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox
Years before her feminist performance art, she channeled her feelings through a copy machine.
Art Review
Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.
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A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little
Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.
Art Review
Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography
Pérez’s impulse as a photographer is to hold a feeling still — which is, really, a means of honoring the living, witnessing them.
Art Review
The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati
A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism.
Art Review
The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio
He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally.
Book Review
Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Her intimate photographs of women include humor and playfulness, and speak to her closeness to her subjects.