Art
If you want to understand what happened in the 1960s or you want to know about race in America, Smith is one of the essential photographers to look at, as are the other members of the Kamonigen to have shows in recent years.
Art
Do you ever feel like you are getting the hard sell or being bludgeoned into submission?
Art
A Native American reservoir lies on either side of the Mexican-US border. What would it mean to build a wall through it?
Books
Borzutsky makes pathetic fallacy less an instrument of empathy than an agent of unsettlement, provoking strong reaction to the many historical and imaginary vignettes he creates.
Art
Al Taylor's painting practice — an undertaking whose success was tied to its degree of artlessness — seemed to court, if not the “death of painting,” then a refutation of the traditional hierarchy that places painting at the top of the heap.
Art
This week, Lady Liberty gets a "Refugees Welcome" banner, critics hate on Amy Feldman and Jason Rhoades, Warhol's cause of death may be more complicated than we think, drawing black comic characters, and more.
Art
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Books
It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.
Art
Elliott Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Art
For Mangold, more than any other artist of his generation, painting is contingent, rather than self-sufficient. It is part of an active relationship.
Art
If this kind of wacko fear-mongering is part of the new American norm, I think the best thing art can do is spook us out of this existence.
Interview
Painters who lived and exhibited in New England, like Jake Berthot and Porforio DiDonna, are highly represented. They, like Stockwell, have straddled the line between tough material abstraction, nature, and the figure.