Art
Taryn Simon Mines the Empty Aesthetics of Diplomacy
There’s a certain pomp necessary to reinforce the power of politics.
Reviews
Art
The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics
DETROIT — One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political.
Art
Trying on Gender with Self-Portraits and Props
Jürgen Klauke’s prop-filled, leather-punctuated photographs can stop you in your tracks.
Art
The Visual Music of a New York School Painter's Late Works
It was once a common notion that abstract painting was analogous to music.
Art
Altarpieces for the Digital Age
Enter Transfer gallery and your entire field of vision is instantly taken up by a vast screen, measuring 10 by 10 feet, nearly the width of the room.
Art
The Underexplored Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — In the words of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, “there is no political power without control of the archive, if not memory.”
Art
When Institutional Critique Doesn’t Go Far Enough
First let me tell you what it’s like to be here.
Art
A Monument to Philip Roth that Maybe Also Mocks Him
MIAMI — Initially, the title of Bryan Zanisnik’s exhibition at Locust Projects, Philip Roth Presidential Library, feels appropriate.
Art
Lessons in Looking from a Ragnar Kjartansson Performance
DETROIT — I’d been sitting in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Cafe 78 for roughly five minutes before I noticed that the usual sonic backdrop of well-curated music had been replaced by a single repeating guitar chord, fading almost to silence each time before being reprised (with an occasio
Film
Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film
It's the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for "the Watermelon Woman," a black actress who played mostly mammy roles in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films.
Art
A Chronicler of Poverty in Post-Independence India Who Found Dignity in the Details
The late theorist and photographer Bhupendra Karia’s lifelong mission may best be summed up as a quest for objectivity.
Art
A Lackluster Reunion for Five of Mexico's Most Successful Contemporary Artists
MEXICO CITY — Between 1987 and 1992, a group of young art students in Mexico City formed a weekly flux group of creative exchange and critique as an alternative to the overly traditional fine art education available to them.