The titular work in Chicago native Maia Cruz Palileo's first hometown exhibition, "All the While I Thought You Had Received This," was one of several paintings in the show depicting a not-quite-empty…
Chanel Chiffon Thomas's exhibition at Goldfinch, "Fractured Reality," featured eight bold assemblages in which thick sinews of embroidery are joined with found fabric, painted canvas, and other…
Andrew Norman Wilson's exhibition at Document featured his video, which tells the story of a man with a curious relationship to Kodak and dramatizes the fractious genealogy that only tenuously binds…
The thirty-two small, abstract paintings in Tomma Abts's show, which the Art Institute co-organized with the Serpentine Galleries in London, recall what Ezra Pound said he was trying to do with his…
The title of Nigerian-born artist Otobong Nkanga's first major survey in North America, "To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again," referred to the Namibian town Tsumeb, which was founded in 1905 by German…
Counterfactuals are back in fashion. The election of Donald Trump catapulted sales of Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America (2004), which describes what might have occurred if Charles…
The heroically scaled wall-mounted compositions in Elliott Hundley's exhibition (all works 2018) might initially register as dense painted abstractions.