Art Review
An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art
Burn Me! at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains — in the last six months and far earlier.
Reviews
Art Review
For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material
An exhibition of Ligon’s well-known works at the Brant Foundation shows how language fails us and confronts us with silence.
Book Review
Henri Matisse Never Really Left Morocco
Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and exploration.
Art Review
Marisol Was Nobody’s It Girl
A retrospective rescues aspects of her career from her long-running reputation as “glamorous girl artist,” including her politics, humor, and sense of self.
Book Review
If the US-Mexico Border Could Talk
Echoes from the Borderlands, which transcribes a sound installation tracing the border, insists on the land’s inextricability from the history to which it bears witness.
Book Review
How Painting Saved One of Our Most Iconic Designers
A visit to Michaels craft store helped restore book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund during a deep bout of depression.
Art Review
John Wilson Spent a Lifetime Making Blackness Visible
His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art.
Art Review
Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery reveals the artist’s astonishing technical skills, but the wall texts are laugh-out-loud amusing at best and art historically dangerous at worst.
Book Review
A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation
A new book pulses with artistic forms by Puerto Rican artists born of necessity, urgency, collaboration, and activism.
Art Review
UChicago MFA Students’ Offbeat Aesthetics
Highlights are Eleonore Zurawski’s delicate and brutal sculptures and Rebekka Federle-McCabe’s explicit but tender dog sculptures.
Art Review
How Huguette Caland and Hai-Wen Lin Listen to the Body
Playful and witty, full of bright color and unexpected shapes, two of the most delightful solo shows up in Chicago right now concern human bodies.
Art Review
Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly
His recent paintings of everyday life transcend the literal without becoming overtly symbolic; this is the tight rope he walks.