Art
Paintings About the Intersection of Architecture and White Privilege
The emphasis in this series of paintings by Chris Barnard is to highlight the role of institutions of privilege in the perpetuation of racial violence in the United States.
Reviews
Books
Bringing Canonical Thinkers to Bear on 21st-Century Life
In a new genre-defying book, Jasmine Dreame Wagner subjects her life to critical scrutiny with the help of philosophers, theorists, and artists.
Performance
Making Art in Apocalyptic Times
An event at JACK presented five performances dealing with what it means to make art in an age of crisis.
Art
Performance Artists Probe East Asian Identity and Power Dynamics
As East Asian artists become increasingly visible, we chose to focus on their work at the Itinerant Performance Art Festival, where live art lent itself easily to political concerns.
Art
From Aura Photos to Automatic Writing, an Artist Plumbs the Abyss Between Belief and Disbelief
Susan Hiller’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery approaches the weird and the unusual with illuminating, liberating aplomb.
Books
Photographs of North America’s East Coast Capture Its Fragile Ecosystems
Photographer David Freese journeyed along the continent's eastern shoreline, documenting it in the face of climate change.
Art
The Idiosyncratic Oeuvre of a 1970s Nut Artist
A retrospective of Roy De Forest, who described what he and his colleagues at UC Davis were making in the 1960s as "Nut Art," is fun, innovative, and ambitious.
Art
The Swashbuckling Origins of One of America’s Greatest Tattooers
The show on Gus Wagner offers a rare look into the artist's life through his 150-page scrapbook, which has photographs, sketches, postcards, press clippings, and more.
Art
Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants
An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
Art
Confronting Cambodian Sexism Through Portraiture
Neak Sophal’s newest series seeks to counter — or at least complicate — traditional depictions of women, as well as other sexist aspects of Cambodian culture.
Art
On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit's N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
Art
The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons's Blow-Up Ballerina
The artist's 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture at Rockefeller Center aggrandizes an outmoded model of femininity.