Art
A Contemporary Art Museum Reopens With Promise in Toronto
Rapidly rising rents led to the shuttering of the former MOCCA, pushing curator David Liss to find a new building for an expanded mission.
Reviews
Art
Bringing Back Op with a World of Zigzags, Sunbursts, and Bullseyes
Liz Collins' new solo show at LMAK Gallery is full of dynamic dualities: works both hard and soft, chaotic and orderly, three-dimensional and flat.
Performance
A Newer, Queerer Rendition of Oscar Wilde's Salomé
Oscar Wilde's oft-misunderstood, rarely-performed tragedy about the beheading of St. John the Baptist gets new life at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn.
Art
Artists Confront the Radioactive Landscapes of the United States
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in Buffalo examines the nuclear past and future of the United States.
Art
Hauntingly Anonymous Portraits by Victor Pesce
An exhibition presents a less familiar side of the artist, primarily known for his late austere still lifes from the 1990s.
Books
Photographing the Daily Roar of Life on a New York City Flight Path
In Landing Lights Park, photographer David Rothenberg captures a quiet Queens neighborhood disrupted by descending airplanes.
Art
New Ways of Experiencing Art for the Sight-Impaired
Shared Vision features commissioned works by 14 sighted, partially sighted, or blind artists formulating new ways to encounter art.
Art
Martha Wilson Tries on Prescribed Female Roles, from Housewife to First Lady
An early proponent of feminism, Wilson has been exploring female identity in patriarchal society since the early 1970s.
Art
Pixels and Politics in the Age of Fake News
A new work by South Korean artist, Sunwoo Hoon, shown at this year’s Gwangju Biennale, gets to the heart of contemporary democracy’s struggle for viability.
Art
How Channa Horwitz Pushed Beyond the Precincts of Minimalism
Though her art shares common ground with Sol LeWitt, with whom she had a warm correspondence and even traded work, Horwitz was not granted even a fraction of his renown.
Art
The Childhood Innocence of John Ashbery's Art
Ashbery’s primary subject matter concerns an alternate world where nothing goes permanently wrong, and where disasters are nothing more than pranks.
Art
Recognizing Ed Clark's Contribution to Abstraction
The work of Clark should remind us of all the interesting things going on in painting in the 1970s, even if few people were looking.