Art
Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory
Between 1994 and 2011, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
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Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
This is what very good artists are supposed to do: use the past to bring about the present — in David Rabinowitch’s case, a visionary one.
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Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age
Noh Sangho asks if the terms of eye-catching, short-lived virality were not so different in the 16th century as they are now.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
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Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
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Required Reading
This week, a mirrored house in the Swiss Alps, California’s obsession with health, the Trump wall’s debt to Minimalism, Berlin’s Arab intellectual community, rain drama in LA, and more.
Books
Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.
Books
Jack Kerouac's Beat Paintings
A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Enigmatic Views
Sultan is both the artist and the artisan — a view that goes against the grain characterizing art as a purely conceptual activity, a form of entrepreneurship.
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Elisabeth Frink’s Human Bestiary
Few British sculptors stood at a remove from art world trends as consistently as Frink.
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Kehinde Wiley's Painted Elegies for Ferguson
The subjects of Wiley's Ferguson paintings launch a vibrant dialogue between the canvas of the painting and the canvas of the body.
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Rocks, Waste, and Water
Ecological anxiety in shows by Davino Semo, Katherine Wolkoff, and Aaron Morse.