Art
Sex Is Both Rude and Sweet in an Italian Modernist’s Oeuvre
PARIS — The work of Carol Rama has a powerful belligerence about it.
Reviews
Art
Canadian Modernist Emily Carr Finally Gets Her Due
TORONTO — In the discussion around underrepresented female artists in the art world, one name is slowly becoming more well known.
Art
Canadian Modernist Emily Carr Finally Gets Her Due
TORONTO — In the discussion around underrepresented female artists in the art world, one name is slowly becoming more well known.
Art
A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
This past Sunday was both an auspicious and sobering time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
Art
47 Painters Exhibit Symptoms of the Philip Guston Effect
BOSTON — Before 1968, when Philip Guston more or less began working on a new body of work that would define his late career, it could be said of him, as it was of Lord Dartmouth by the poet William Cowper: this was a man “who wears a coronet and prays.”
Art
Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds Can Make for Good Art
I do know that I had no intention of writing about the two exhibitions currently at Tibor de Nagy, John Ashbery & Guy Maddin: Collages and Richard Baker: The Doctor is Out, when I went to the gallery.
Music
Phonetic Yeetcraft
Anybody who can parse two consecutive words on the new Young Thug record should pursue a career in speech therapy.
Art
Earned Magic: Alison Hall's Deceptive Monochromes
Alison Hall’s small, smart, monochromatic panels are clear, compact and not at all what they seem.
Art
Seeing Mexico Through the Lens of One of Its Great Cinematographers
When it comes to the celebrity of film crews, fame is not fickle; it dotes lovingly on the director.
Art
A Textile Artist's Long Overdue US Survey Ropes You In
Human figures seem to lurk in almost all of Françoise Grossen's folded, knotted, and coiled rope sculptures.
Books
Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
Art
Reclaiming the Lost Feminism of Fairy Tales
In the back room of the Drawing Center, Natalie Frank's lavish pastels conjure fairy tales in all their grisly and gorgeous glory.