Books
Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
Reviews
Art
Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
Art
Zoe Pettijohn Schade Looks at the Inevitable and Doesn’t Blink
It is one thing to get lost in a meticulous, intricate work of overlapping abstract patterns, and quite another to have it look back at you.
Art
The Stories of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair
From Ralph Ziman's massive Ziman sculpture to Uthman Wahaab's painterly critiques of technology, this art fair devoted to contemporary African art is packed with fascinating projects of every kind.
Art
A Feminist Artist's Postcolonial Animations
Chitra Ganesh's appropriations of traditional Hindu and Buddhist artworks are part homage to the past, part alternate realities and part badass feminist interventions.
Art
Searching for Redemption in Post-WWII German Art
While Inventur proposes that we seek to understand and empathize with these artists, their biographies constantly nag at the moral centers of the brain.
Art
The Everyday Politics of Conceptual Art
While Michael E. Smith’s sculptures and installations draw on conceptual art, his practice centers on the objects he uses, and the messy details of life.
Art
Washing Down the Canon with Wine and Oysters at TEFAF New York
Amid all the works by familiar white male modernists on view at the plush and posh fair, there are many superb pieces by women and artists from Latin America.
Art
Looking Back on Harald Szeemann, Who Expanded What It Means to Be a Curator
Driven by a boundless intellectual curiosity, Szeemann challenged historical narratives and exploded aesthetic hierarchies, expanding the role of curator from simply a steward of objects to a shaper of ideas.
Art
The Visionary Modernist Experiments of Nicolas Schöffer
An exhibition at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art tells the story of early experiments that led to the first cybernetic sculpture in art history
Art
In Jacolby Satterwhite’s New Exhibition, a Blessed Road between Heaven and Hell, Body and Empire
Jacolby Satterwhite’s art is nearly the opposite of the fascist, illusionist US government regime we currently live under, and is far more radical — creating something that could otherwise never be.
Guide
The Insider's Guide to Outsider Art
The exhibition features some compelling artwork, but it falls into the same traps and stereotypes that have plagued many museum exhibitions featuring outlier artists (if that’s what we’re supposed to call them now).