Art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
“The Gates” was an artwork within an artwork, inscribing the populist impulse of Central Park into 7,500+ neon orange armatures with billowing fabric.
Reviews
Art
Daisy Patton Paints Wedding Photos Back to Life
The artist resurrects moments of celebration in Before These Witnesses, whose subjects look back at us across time and offer themselves to be seen.
Art
Cum Shots Across Art History
In Deborah Kass’s Art History Paintings, the politics of display are just the beginning.
Book Review
Science/Fiction Is a Botanical Daydream
This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster.
Art
Su Yu-Xin’s Metonyms for the Earth
Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them.
Art
When Our Containers Can't Hold Us
Kay Kasparhauser’s sculptural habitats, in which live isopods and springtails, hint at the necessity and limitations of care.
Performance
Anne Imhof’s Armory Performance Is a Bad Balenciaga Ad
DOOM: House of Hope is comically apolitical and tragically hollow beneath all the hype.
Art
Barbie Turns 65 at a Museum
From the original doll of 1959 to the Barbies of today, an exhibition tracks the life of an icon that just became a senior citizen.
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within
With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become.
Art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.
Art
The Slouching Beast of Southern California
Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken’s panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and city streets.
Art
Alex Strada Says “No” to NIMBYs
The show argues that caring for unhoused and dispossessed people is not a task to be sloughed off to the “city,” but rather a responsibility each of us shoulders.