Art
Abstraction with a Political Conscience
Olivier Mosset’s career could almost be seen as a grand Fluxus-style gesture of quiet provocation.
Reviews
Art
Louise Nevelson's Graphic Imagination
Nevelson used drawing as a creative bridge back and forth into the making of sculpture.
Art
The Overdue Skyrocketing of Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh’s chief subject is, in her own terms, “black female subjectivity,” hardly a predominant theme in an art world that has skewed way white and male since its inception.
Performance
A Jaunty Walk with Bach
The Six Brandenburg Concertos is a gorgeously lyrical piece that kept those concertos in my head humming and cheerfully tumbling days after I had seen the work.
Books
Monuments Not Meant to Last
This new book, Temporary Monuments , includes the range of documentation that defines Mayer's ephemeral works: photographs, sketches and drawings, writings by Mayer, and a scholarly essay.
Art
From the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a Gilded Coffin to Die For
Created in the last century of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Nedjemankh's coffin reconfigures how we understand Ancient Egypt's transition from autonomous empire to Roman province.
Art
A Canadian Museum Rehangs Its Collection to Center Feminism and Race
Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton highlight the dual role of programming and outreach in light of identity politics and the erasure of women in one of the nation’s oldest art institutions.
Art
The Quiet Chaos in Lee Ufan’s New Paintings
A master of meditative minimalism, the Korean artist's new paintings are more frenetically energized than ever before.
Art
Taking Apart the War Machine to See What's Inside
By centering the actual machinery of war, Mary Mattingly's exhibition, What Happens After, pushes viewers who haven’t experienced war to consider what it must be like.
Film
Jean-Luc Godard’s Latest Film Pushes the Limits of Montage
Godard's most recent film uses jagged visual and sonic cuts to connect to world and cinematic history.
Art
The Infinite Worlds Made from Pins
Tamiko Kawata's current exhibition offers a metaphor to help us grapple with how meaning is made.
Books
How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.