Art
Dawoud Bey Asks, Can Landscapes Hold Traumas?
The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call.
Sean Kelly Gallery
Art
Marina Abramović Is Suspended Between Self-Sacrifice and Spectacle
Abramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood.
Art
Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth's art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.
Art
The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey's documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
Art
So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
Podcast
Artist Shahzia Sikander Is Ready for a New Post-Pandemic Reality
In this expansive conversation, artist Shahzia Sikander discusses her first solo exhibition in a decade and her hopes for a post-pandemic art world.
News
Shahzia Sikander Urges a Rethinking of Art History
Sikander’s first New York solo show in nine years includes a captivating range of paintings, mosaics, animations, and the artist’s first-ever sculpture.
Art
What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic
Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.
Art
Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico
In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.
Art
Three Decades Distilled into 180 Portraits
Liu Wei returns to New York to show an idiosyncratic body of work that marks a radical departure from the paintings that made him a star
Art
Kehinde Wiley's Pantheon of Black Artists
In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.
Art
The Loneliness of Luis Barragán's Domestic Spaces
James Casebere's latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.