Art
Half a Century Before Midjourney, There Was AARON
Harold Cohen’s plotters and software programs both clarify and complicate the historical narrative around AI and art.
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Art
Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s Storied Art Collaboration
Las Vegas Ikebana chronicles both the character and persistence of decades of work produced by the two artists.
Art
Frank Auerbach Wrests Light From the Darkness
We can almost breathe the atmosphere of the sad London of the 1950s in Auerbach’s suite of charcoal portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.
Art
Georges Adéagbo Channels a Humanized Abraham Lincoln
Adéagbo teases out the exploitative and exhibitionist currents in aesthetic traditions, yet his world-making reclaims the emancipatory values of creative expression.
Art
Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction
By laying numbers, words, and phrases onto otherwise abstract imagery, the late Argentinian artist prophesized the dread-inducing news alerts of our time.
Art
Miranda Forrester’s Soft Portraits of Black Queer Women
Faceless women and interiors on transparent plastic highlight the nuanced identity politics of Black female and queer spaces.
Books
Envisioning Kashmir’s Future Through Paint and Verse
Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock responded to Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain’s watercolors of his homeland, crafting an intimate portrait of the occupied region’s past and future.
Books
The Legends, Luxuries, and Dreams of Imperial Mughal Ateliers
In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.
Art
A Maypole Dance for Dogs in Queens
Night and day converge, fantasy and reality, humans and animals, rigor and play in this exhibition that feels like a transportive and unfettered elsewhere.
Art
The Medieval Dance Between Greed and God
Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality at the Morgan Library proffers example after example of the sad fate of those who hoard money.
Art
A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.
Books
New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works
Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective.