Art
What Survivance Means for Indigenous Artists
Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation.
Reviews
Art
Curtis Cuffie's Precarious Life and Art
He embraced the uncertainty of his environs, knowingly erecting his assemblage sculptures in areas subject to police raids.
Art
Tsherin Sherpa's "Corrupted" Thangka Art
In Sherpa's art, Tibet and California, thangka and pop art, Buddha and Mickey Mouse mingle and morph to create a new visual language.
Art
The Joys of Watching Paint Dry
In contrast to the speed and bravura of gestural abstraction, new.shiver slows time, and invites viewers to ponder how one might shape time passing.
Art
Artists on Basketball and Its Discontents
Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art both celebrates and critiques a game that has grown into a global mega-industry.
Film
The A-Lot-Ness of Little Richard
Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed.
Art
It’s Selfie Season at Manhattan’s High Line
Artist Pamela Rosenkranz’s glowing pink and red tree sculpture is sure to become an Instagram hit, and that’s okay.
Art
Notes on the Soul of New Orleans
Helen Cammock’s solo exhibition is an array of visual poems, ceramics, and even the sound of her trumpet, which she began practicing in the city.
Art
Mokha Laget’s Visual Paradoxes
Her paintings suggest exploded-view diagrams of parts that don’t fit together, as if the shapes are derived from a pleasantly illogical Jenga puzzle.
Art
Chronicles of an American Abyss
By surveying 150 years of social strife, the artists in Model Home (New York) dispel rosy clichés of the "American ideal."
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Art by Survivors of America’s Wars
The 2023 Veteran Art Triennial & Summit proves that the tools of the colonizer, the occupier, and the oppressor can be used to resist and persist.
Art
Mie Yim's Howls of Uncertainty
Her work derives its power from the instability of not knowing exactly what ground you’re standing on when looking at it.