Flight Patterns: John Akomfrah at Lisson Gallery
In his latest film, John Akomfrah gives visual and historical shape to the traumas of this decade—pandemic, police violence, oppression—without blurring their forms.
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Man of Action
A new biography of the midcentury critic Harold Rosenberg offers an unconvincing case for his reappraisal.
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Gray Areas: Maggie Nelson’s Ambivalent Essays
In her new essay collection, "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint", Maggie Nelson offers an unconvincing argument in favor of indeterminacy.
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Actions Speak Louder than Words: Louise Bourgeois at the Jewish Museum
With an emphasis on Louise Bourgeois's writings, this exhibition attempts to frame her work as directly psychoanalytic.
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Funny Business: Two Comics Anthologies
Two recent volumes from NYRB Comics—Gary Panter's "Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise" and "It's Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980"—highlight the artistry and ingenuity of an…
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All-American Angst
The ominous paintings in Eric Fischl's show "Meditations on Melancholia," inspired by Lars von Trier's apocalyptic film, suggest that the end is nigh.
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Head Case
The paintings in George Condo's exhibition "Internal Riot," made in response to the turmoil of 2020, lacked a sense of interiority
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Eyes Like Goya’s
A Metropolitan Museum survey of Goya's graphic work balances his reportorial and phantasmagorical ways of seeing.
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Consistently Cool
"Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings" at Miles McEnery highlights one of the most sustainedly dazzling—and under-recognized—bodies of work in postwar painting.
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Blockbuster Bloat
Cindy Sherman's new works at Metro Pictures reveal a talented performer dulled by decades of A-list indulgence.
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