An Exhibition of Native Painting Fills a Stubborn Gap in the History of Modernism
Tracing the many lines of Native modernism, "Stretching the Canvas" should be a bellwether for the institutions that still exclude these stories.
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Juan Roberto Diago’s Paintings Challenge the Myth of Racial Equality in Cuba
Juan Roberto Diago is part of a new Afro-Cuban cultural movement that seeks to center questions of race and the afterlives of slavery in Cuban discourse.
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Ed Atkins’s New Work Shows that His Real Medium Might Be Poetry
While Ed Atkins's videos play with the dissonance between the very human scenes they depict and their hyperreal computerized rendering, their most striking elements are the monologues he crafts for…
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Agnes Denes’s Idealistic Projects Refuse to Accept Apocalypse as Inevitable
One could speculate that the Shed's figuring of Agnes Denes as an unclassifiable savant more in league with Renaissance humanists than with her direct contemporaries serves in part to bracket the…
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A MoMA PS1 Exhibition Examines the Living Legacy of the Gulf Wars
Journalists like to say they’re writing the first draft of history. Less attention is given to artists’ active interventions in the same project.
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Rosa Barba Reveals the Secret Lives of Artworks
Rosa Barba, an Italian artist who studied theater and film in Germany in the early 1990s, uses analog film to examine the mechanisms of perception and memory and to explore—often by shooting in…
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For Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Painting Was a Site of Restorative Exuberance and Anxious Estrangement
In the years leading up to world War I, German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner developed a proto-Expressionist painting style that combined a vibrant palette and lurching brushwork and exemplified the…
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Constraint and Variability: Christina Ramberg’s Distinctive Brand of Figuration
Ramberg cultivated a brand of figuration that combined a Pop sensibility with graphic, mechanistic forms, which she deployed, rigorously and pointedly, in somber renderings of cropped female bodies.
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In “Banal Presents,” Three Black Artists Intervene in Vast Social Institutions, from the Prison System to Education
"Banal Presents" was the final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art curated by Meg Onli and titled Colored People Time, after a black expression that frames a…
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The Restless Energy of Richard Tuttle’s Work
Richard Tuttle's work is grounded not in a single aesthetic, but in a straightforward attitude concerning materiality. He allows metal wire, rope, corrugated cardboard, and unstretched canvas to do…
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