Art
Sculptures on the Cusp of Language
Even as some of her works evoke functional objects, Christina Tenaglia is not interested in parody or citation. Their formal strength sets them in their own domain.
Weekend
Art
Suburban Visions to Make Your Skin Crawl
Amy Bennett gives us just enough tantalizing visual details to enthrall and mystify, without becoming heavy-handed.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the white gaze and photos from the US/Mexico border, the market for a branded artist, a weird micro-trend, Jonas Wood's straight white dude problem, Washington state's prison abolitionist movement, and more.
Film
Reveling in the Languor of David Hockney’s World
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan's 1974 documentary on Hockney's circle, basks in the full-frontal, day-to-day details of their tightly interwoven emotional lives.
Art
Luc Tuymans’s Moral Distance
Tuymans is a figurative painter who doubts whether visual representations can ever be truthful.
Art
Stanley Whitney’s Machine for Painting
Whitney’s paintings at this point seem to embody the transitory.
Art
Rachelle Dang's Meditation on Past and Present
If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang's pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
Art
Robert Rauschenberg and the Men on the Moon
Rauschenberg was among the artists invited by NASA to attend the launch of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that landed two Americans on the moon 50 years ago this month.
Art
How T.C. Cannon Redefined American Indian Identity
Cannon's art is not about identity politics, but the layers and contradictions of self-representation in a society that valorizes assimilation and whiteness.
Art
Required Reading
This week, "Pavilion Le Corbusier" reopens in Zurich, more critics of color, genocide scholars rebuke the Holocaust Museum, a list of the concentration camps, and more.
Art
Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.