Art
Family, Landscape, and Race in Sally Mann’s Photographs
Mann’s historical and social explorations are anchored in her embrace of her identity as a Southerner.
Reviews
Art
Nature Painting as Rorschach Test
Colin Brant paints a peaceable kingdom of leopards, orangutans, owls, and parrots.
Art
Carrie Moyer Reaches for the Stars
Moyer’s new paintings revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.
Art
Aesthetics Matter at the Volta Art Fair
A century after the emergence of Dada, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont's curated section is all about political collage.
Art
Art on Paper Folds Together Elegance and Unruliness
With 85 galleries this year, the New York art fair devoted to works on paper explores the large and small, the personal and political.
Film
Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary
In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.
Art
Dawoud Bey Photographs the Living to Honor Children Killed in Birmingham in 1963
These portraits are not displayed in memoriam. They're full of life.
Art
Watering the Imagination at the Spring Break Art Show
Even if the overall theme seems unrelated to much of the work on display, this art show has a way of allowing curators and artists to realize their own unique visions.
Art
A Game in Which David Lynch Teaches You How to Type
In the truly Lynchian game, the director gives you instructions like, "place your 'Left Ring Finger' in the undulating bug next to your keyboard."
Art
Searching for Trends at the Armory Show with Empty Pockets and a Drink in Hand
The strength of the Armory Show — now in its 24th year — is that, just like a mall, I know exactly what to expect when I go there.
Art
Tania Bruguera’s Once-Censored Installation Measures the Distance Between Words and Things
First created for the Havana Biennial in 2000, Bruguera's installation-performance is a critique of the totalitarian structures that impact people's daily lives.
Art
Jean-Luc Godard's Models for a Scuttled Exhibition Are Artworks in Their Own Right
An exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery gathers the intricate and rewarding models Godard created for a 2006 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that never came to pass.