Lewisโs tattered canvases and pasted over drawings mirror a world in need of constant upkeep and repair.
Reviews
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David Attenborough Guides Us to the Time of the Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Planet is visually ambitious, but the docuseries often fails to contextualize those visuals for the curious viewer.
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Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ashย
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
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Highlights From Columbia Universityโs MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia Universityโs MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artistsโ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
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A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers
Sprawling across the Joshua Tree region, nine site-specific works consider the ways in which people have relocated to the desert, destroying what came before them, and cultivating new life.
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The Tsugua Diaries Is More Than an Arthouse Summer Hangout Movie
The plot of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomesโs film moves backward in time, continually recontextualizing what at first looks like a simple situation.
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How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiสปi
Anthony Banua-Simonโs documentary Cane Fire contrasts decades of Hollywood images of his home with its current reality.
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Yarn Against the Patriarchy
Michelle Segreโs art is truer to the actual world we live in than to the ideal one proposed and refined by the art world and its institutions.
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Libby Black Processes the World Around Her By Recreating It
In the artistโs new exhibition, Black moves away from her signature representation of commercial goods to celebrating the labors behind everyday life.
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When a Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibits a Renaissance Artist
Ikon Galleryโs retrospective asserts that Carlo Crivelliโs self-reflexiveness and questioning the nature of the image made him anticipate the โcontemporary.โ
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Weaving an Altar to Guatemalaโs Pre-Hispanic Glory
Sandra Monterroso confronts the knots that tie together the inequalities, violence, discrimination, racism, and patriarchy in Guatemala.
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NYC Exhibition Invites Viewers to Go for a Napย
For all its quirks, Sprout Hinge Nap Wobbleโs immersive elements never feel gimmicky.