Art
Kenneth Tam’s Requiem for the Shattered American Dream
The artist takes up the devastation of those whose lives have been shattered by the plummeting value of the taxicab medallion.
Reviews
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Christine Sun Kim’s Multidimensional Music
The artist makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.
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A Haitian-American Artist’s Many Lenses on Life
Through his mixed media artworks, Paul Gardère invites his audience into a meaningful and personable dialogue and offers a glimpse into his life.
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Setsuko Channels the Magic of Cats
The artist’s felines, sculpted in ghostly white enamel-glazed clay, infuse the space with a quiet vitality, bridging the mystical and the everyday.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire
Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object.
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The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt
The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.
Book Review
Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.
Art
Dawoud Bey Asks, Can Landscapes Hold Traumas?
The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call.
Art
The Analog Charm of Pre-Internet Technological Art
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing.
Art
Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class
Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.
Book Review
A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
Art
Raoul De Keyser’s Dramas of Looking
Because the waywardness of his paintings is a product of its unspoken logic, his marks and variations are performing precisely the right roles.