Art
The Dazzling Sweep of the Hunter Color School
Radiant Energy is the first exhibition to feature paintings by Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, key members of this influential group.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.
Music
Four Bands on Sex, Politics, and the Weather
New albums by Rhye, Physically Sick, Toni Braxton, and Johnny Jewel share a warped relationship to their ostensible themes.
Art
Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
Art
Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
Art
Cowards, Autocrats, and Other Traitors
The stunning candor of George W. Bush’s new paintings establishes his reputation as a 21st-Century Goya, capable of uncovering the humanity in monsters.
Art
Danh Vo's Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.
Art
Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
Art
Joe Overstreet, Painter as Aesthetic Nomad
Overstreet keeps his references to his African-American heritage and Native American influences oblique.
Art
Required Reading
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
Art
The Unwanted Guest at Modernism’s Table
Martin Barré’s work refutes the American view that painting is something that could be used up — as if it came in a pail rather than a well.
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Cy Twombly’s Extravagant Synesthesia
Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.