Art Review
Memory Becomes Form in the Art of Candida Alvarez
Abstraction and representation bleed into one another in the same way that memories momentarily coagulate into images before dissolving again.
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A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.
Book Review
How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.
Art Review
The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms
Scientists today still make use of Mary Banning’s research, examining the same mushrooms that she located, preserved, and packed away for posterity.
Art Review
Video Art That Chases the Rainbow
Homage: Queer Lineages on Video is worth a visit for anyone to broaden their horizons of what queerness might mean, and to discover histories often left untold.
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Refik Anadol’s Soulless AI Tribute to Leo Messi
By channeling a language as viscerally human as football, Anadol exposed both the calculated hostility of artificial intelligence and the frigidity of the fine art world.
Book Review
The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo
The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.
Art Review
Chicago Nonprofit Celebrates a Decade of Serving Unhoused Artists
Red Line Service, which provides art opportunities for currently or formerly unhoused people, celebrates its anniversary with an exhibition.
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The Queens Phone Repair Shop Meets the Museum
Umber Majeed’s work cuts deep for those who saw their diasporic culture meld queasily with early internet culture.
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The Communal Roots of Ben Shahn's Social Realism
The 20th-century artist belonged to a "prophetic community" that resisted oppression.
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Magali Lara Stitches Together the Personal and Political
A survey of work by the pioneering Mexican feminist artist reimagine landscapes and home interiors as sites of political and emotional tension.
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Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds
The hybridized energy of Woolfalk's art is infectious; it permeates everything we see, while prodding us to question what we imagine the future might look like.