Art
Words That Leave a Ragged Edge
While Scrawlspace is a deeply inquisitive and well-researched exhibition, the premises are in some instances cliché and a bit contradictory.
Reviews
Art
Kyle Larson’s Anxious Dreamscapes
His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination.
Art
The Visceral Humanity of Ralph Lemon’s Art
Blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer, a survey of Lemon’s art centers his luminous legacy of storytelling, memory, and transformation.
Art
Do Ho Suh Picks Up the Pieces
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success.
Art
The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art
In today’s algorithm-driven world what has become of embodied eroticism, of desire, of seeking and celebrating beauty, of intimate vulnerability, or vulnerable intimacy?
Art
Weaving Through the History of Diné Textiles
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving.
Book Review
Jonathan Lethem’s Alternative Life as an Artist
In a new book, the novelist and essayist writes in parallel to, rather than directly about, art.
Book Review
Serenading Entwined Lineages of Black Art and Music
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass.
Performance
An Artist Possessed by Her Alter-Ego
In Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! performance artist Alina Troyano asks: Where does one identity start and the other end? Can they even be separated?
Art
Danny Moynihan’s Landscapes Look Back at Us
His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed.
Art
Lynn Hershman Leeson Predicted Our Digital Hellscape
The video art pioneer has been warning us from the start that the more advanced digital tech becomes, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions.
Art
Art That Rides the Radio Waves to Resistance
In Broken Boxes artists share stories about their lives and experiences instead of relying solely on institutional didactics to “explain” what their work is about.