In early November, 2022, participants arrived at Korean Art Week in Boston and Hanover, MA, to attend a conference organized by the Korea Foundation, Dartmouth… Continue Reading 2022 Korean Art Week: Between Past and Future is Now
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The works in Mousetrap constitute Natalie Terenzini’s drive to paint the female form in an authentic and subversive manner. Her subject, an anonymous, caricature-like figure,… Continue Reading Natalie Terenzini’s Candy-Colored Voyeurism: Mousetrap at Thierry Goldberg
With the changes brought on by the global pandemic, it is especially poignant to visit an exhibition celebrating the art of students and young graduates.… Continue Reading Reflections on “Yüzleşme, Confrontation:” Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition of Students and Graduates at Pera Museum in Istanbul
Few art events are as grassroots as SPRING/BREAK. Spread across two floors in a Midtown East office building, artist- and curator-assembled exhibitions bloom in otherwise… Continue Reading At SPRING/BREAK, Smartphones Become Sacred and Free Weights Grow Fur
A sidelong glance reveals as much as a direct gaze—which Hans Holbein the Younger humorously demonstrated in The Ambassadors (1533) by depicting a skull at… Continue Reading John Edmonds Gives Us Some Serious Side Eye
Alice Neel: People Come First, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1, 2021, could be an unexpectedly emotionally intense experience for… Continue Reading “Alice Neel: People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Factories always fascinate me, as I often wonder how the things I eat, use, or consume are manufactured by workers or machines: transforming raw materials… Continue Reading “Whose Utopia” – Cao Fei at the Museum of Modern Art
About Time: Fashion and Duration is the biggest exhibition of the year for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and part of… Continue Reading “About Time: Fashion and Duration” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recently, the artist Tishan Hsu, who had largely retreated from public view since first emerging in the New York scene during the late 1980s, resurfaced in 2020. Continue Reading The works speak for themselves: Tishan Hsu at SculptureCenter
In "to a raven and the hurricanes which bring back smells of humans in love from unknown places," Petrit Halilaj’s vivid celebration of transcendent queer love takes on new resonance in the context of the global pandemic. Continue Reading On wingless birds and permeable cages: Petrit Halilaj at the Palacio de Cristal, Madrid