The artists' use of recycled and foraged materials suggest that they are less inspired by the beauty of the landscape than they are critical of the systems and stances that regulate it.
The title of Wendy Red Star's midcareer survey, "A Scratch on the Earth," comes from the Apsáalooke (Crow) word annúkaxua, which refers to the "scratches" the United States government made on the…
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
Since the late 1990s, Anna Sew Hoy has developed a sculptural, largely ceramic language centered on forms suggesting amoebas, heads, planets, caves, and hives. Familiar yet alien, Sew Hoy's…
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's focused, handsomely installed retrospective of Harmony Hammond's work offers something of a corrective to perceptions of her career, which have often been…
Kelly Akashi's hand was everywhere in this ensnaring show, and not just implicitly, in that the Los Angeles–based artist made its sculptural contents, but explicitly, too.
A forty-year, roughly two-hundred-piece Franz West survey, launched last fall at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and now at Tate Modern in London, brings home to viewers the extraordinary formal range…