Art
Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth's paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
Reviews
Art
An Artist's Altar to Divine Feminine Energy
Anastasia Pelias’s sculpture builds on this mythological legacy, suggesting we all have the ability to commune with a higher power and influence our futures.
Poetry
A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly
Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.
Books
The Machine Aesthetic in George Rickey’s Sculptures
Belinda Rathbone’s biography traces the sculptor’s embrace of kinetic mechanisms to his work in the Singer Sewing Machine factory.
Art
Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin's subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.
Art
A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
Art
Saying Maybe to the Yes Men
As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.
Books
The Forgotten Story of Modern Art's Great Jewish Collectors
Charles Dellheim's study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Art
Time and Transformation in the Art of Toba Khedoori
Although Khedoori does not depict living beings, their presence is evoked in the traces they leave behind.
Art
Bronx Calling Recognizes Artists' Individuality but Neglects Art-World Gentrification
The Bronx Museum's fifth biennial continues to focus its programming on individual identity, eliding the ever-divergent interests of the art market and local communities.
Art
Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness
While it may be strange to think of food insecurity as a basis for art, the works in Food Justice reveal barriers and injustices in food access.
Art
A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.