Magic makes theater of the most banal objects: a wooden board is used to contact the dead, a discarded possession becomes the conduit for a hex. One challenge for “Language of the Birds,” a survey of …
If you could hire someone to control your memory, would you? Perhaps we forget for a reason. Sue de Beer, the 37-year-old artist based in Brooklyn, explores the irresistible, fate-tempting desire to a…
Museum retrospectives can either serve as tributes to well-known artists or offer reevaluations of under-recognized figures. This survey of some 300 works by Brion Gysin (1916-1986), including paintin…