Reconsidering the Art Museum Post #MeToo
Manet at the Art Institute of Chicago sounds awfully good. But the show's curators could not have made it any more irrelevant to the present moment. More...
Suzanne Lacy
What at first often looks and feels like a Hollywood production are real situations performed by regular folks. The invisible hand of Suzanne Lacy is behind all of it, this theater and drama of the ordinary taken to extraordinary lengths. More...
Still a White People’s Place?
On a recent visit to the headline exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, Maria Porges noticed how the predominantly African American audience stood in stark contrast with the overwhelmingly white audience you see at most museums. But there may be signs that diversity is taking hold. More...
Alexandra Grant
Antigone in Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy exclaimed "I was born to love not to hate," and so Alexandra Grant takes for here current large collage works that she too was "Born to Love." She weave order and chaos together like two sides of a single coin. More...
“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen”
What curator Natasha Matteson deems “productive confusion” sums up the magic of the art of “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Anchored by Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and collaborator Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) denied their gender--and any certain narrative of who they truly were. More...
Lagomorphs
The recent auction sale of Jeff Koons' "Bunny" is just the latest reminder how much the big money art market just pisses DeWitt Cheng off. More...
Inka Essenhigh
Inka Essenhigh’s blend of the familiar and the surreal in fables and narratives feel as grounded in reality as they are utterly fantastical. More...
Shawn Demarest
Cars become the stuff of visual ecstasy in Shaw Demarest's glistening paintings. Flaring headlights and psychedelic color produce a fresh vision of what we take for granted every day driving through town. More...
This Must Be the Place
Lorraine Peltz' survey of chandeliers and bouquets are now deeply connected to her late husband, art critic and educator James Yood. More...
Mark di Suvero
Know primarily for his monumental public sculpture, a series of phosphorescent paintings more than just complement the maquette on view here. They clarify how gestural mark making lies at the root of the three dimensional work. More...
Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whole lot had been left out to cure for months or years under the glare of high-desert light. More...
