John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
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The Year Without Art, 2020
Every individual loss carries the resonance of collective loss, the ripple of disappearance.
Beer With a Painter: Lisa Corinne Davis
“Artists are cultural critics — but painting is a language.”
Does Anyone Believe in Sculpture?
In “Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now,” the issue crying out to be addressed is: where will sculpture go next?
Required Reading
This week, the best 2020 architecture in India, the lie of trickle-down economics, Armenian artists respond, an artist poses as a billionaire to photograph penthouses, and much more.
Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
“Placing the symbolic weight of this mayhem into the palm of my hand brings me comfort and hope.”
Steve DiBenedetto’s Raw Nerves
Whatever the impulse that initiated the paintings, DiBenedetto clearly works everything out on the surface.
Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao’s paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.
Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly’s landscape photographs evoke each site’s geologic timeline.
Required Reading
This week, queer Black art utopias, search engines are a problem, radiators and pandemics, a bad fortune cookie art project, Pornhub’s rape problem, and more.