Art
Why Give a Name to It?
I liked Outside In because I found out what five artists whose works I have followed are doing these days.
Reviews
Art
An Unsettling Room and Feeling Like You Belong
An unusual gallery installation in Manhattan raises questions about belonging.
Art
Katharina Wulff: Sachlichkeit in Marrakesh
Katharina Wulff grew up in East Berlin and moved to Marrakesh some fifteen years ago. Her work reflects her situation amid the elaborate, distinctly Islamic decoration that adorns traditional architecture in Morocco.
Art
A Gift to Be Simple: John McLaughlin's Paintings Pose Fundamental Questions
The beautiful large-scale retrospective of this major but often forgotten artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a truly revelatory exhibition.
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Bill Scott’s Bittersweet Fictions
Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.
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Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
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Reconstructing the Tattered History of a Fictional 19th-Century Family
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.
Art
Toy-sized Sculptures that Feel Like Daydreams
The sculptures on view in White Column's project room feel like the results of a lot of daydreaming by Joe Howe, who is now 87.
Art
A Painter Who Captured London's 1980s Reggae Scene
The British painter Denzil Forrester, who is currently showing at White Columns, talks about how he made art and was a fly on the wall at reggae and dub music venues.
Art
Themes of Return, Exile, and the Sea Trickle Through a Palestinian Art Festival
Producing a multi-city, multi-venue, multimedia contemporary art event is a major undertaking anywhere, but doing so in the environment of Palestine today is fairly miraculous.
Performance
A Scintillating Opera Is the Met's First by a Female Composer in 113 Years
L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.
Books
Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City
Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's book Nonstop Metropolis charts the overlooked geographic history of New York City.