Art
Larry Achiampong mixes pop culture, internet imagery, and historical iconography related to the African diaspora to craft images, videos, and installations that reflect the complexity of identity in today's fluid, interconnected world.
Art
There is something about a line that is eternal, not because we wish it so, but rather because in separating the light from the dark, we make a passage through all the sundry reasons to lie still and accept what you have been given.
Art
Jordan Casteel, EJ Hill, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman all use their work to explore the body, whether the subject’s, the artist’s, or the spectator’s.
Art
Roe Ethridge combines a commercial photography practice with his personal life to create diquieting images.
Art
In Gary Simmons' newest work, he uses the names of silent screen actors of color and renders them in white paint, bleeding down against a black background like stigmata that suddenly appeared by divine intervention on the gallery’s walls.
Art
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
Performance
Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus stitches together more than a dozen classical Greek plays and is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed.
Art
To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.
Performance
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
Art
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.
Film
A new animated biopic offers insight into the career and work of Hokusai through the life of his daughter, a fellow artist in Edo-era Japan.
Art
Built with the collected detritus of art fairs, The Fair Housing Project illustrates just how much good material is thrown away once the tents fall.