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In Meredith James’s Sculptures, Furniture Becomes a Portal to Another World
At first glance, "Shadows on the Wall," Meredith James's exhibition at Jack Hanley, looked like a sparse arrangement of nondescript midcentury furnishings: an armchair, desk, office chair, medicine…
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Kevin Guthrie’s Work Is as American as Beer, Baseball, and Watergate
Kevin Guthrie is a self-taught artist who draws portraits of pop-culture heroes and villains with pencil and crayon on the inner side of flattened cardboard boxes once packed with beer cans.
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Torkwase Dyson’s New Show Is an Abstract Meditation on the Racial Violence of the 1919 Red Summer
Torkwase Dyson's work often uses abstract forms to address legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery and the African diaspora.
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The World According to Matt Mullican
Around 1980, Matt Mullican began visually elaborating a cosmology of his own invention, for which he divided reality into five color-coded orders of being.
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Brendan Fernandes’s New Performance Brings Isamu Noguchi’s Sculptures to Life
Over the past year or so, Brendan Fernandes, who trained as a ballet dancer before turning to visual art, has been making work that explicitly foregrounds dance's reliance on mastery, skill, and…
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Jeanette Mundt’s Recent Paintings Ask What Simone Biles and Princess Diana Have in Common
Jeanette Mundt spread her subjects across the spectrum of realism and abstraction, playing with the tension between almost athletic precision and painterly flights of fancy.
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A Survey of Hannah Wilke’s Work Traces Her Engagement with Bodily Vulnerability
While critics have never dared question the seriousness of Hannah Wilke's work concerning cancer, her earlier work was regularly dismissed as that of a narcissistic pretty woman who was neither…
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The Istanbul Biennial Ignored the City’s Specific Social Issues in Favor of General Ecological Themes
Five weeks before the Istanbul Biennial's opening in mid-September, its organizer, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud changed the exhibition's main venue from…
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Robert Morris’s ‘Para-Architectural’ Drawings Envision a Fantasy Complex that Prioritizes Movement over Static Form
With "Robert Morris: Para-Architectural Projects," Hunter College's Leubsdorf Gallery spotlighted a seldom-seen portfolio by a postwar artist whose sculpture and writings helped define the Minimalist…
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‘The Poetics of Democracy’ Reconstructed the Cultural Clashes of Post-Franco Spain
The cultivation of memory is a vital part of contemporary Spanish society. It informs conflicts between federalists and nationalists, socialists and neoliberals.
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