Reviews
Patty Chang: Milk Debt
Death. 113 degrees, everyday. Water running out. Loss of meaning. sharks in the water when I see a seal. lemmings....
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell’s latest book, is a beautifully acerbic and transgressively messy portrait of queer existence—and persistence—that celebrates implosion...
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
In his 1836 “Essay on American Scenery,” the painter Thomas Cole wrote of civilization’s detrimental impact on the natural world:...
Sasha Wortzel: Dreams of Unknown Islands
Sasha Wortzel’s Sitting Shiva (2021), which consists of two folding lawn chairs whose webbing has been replaced with Burmese python...
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.
Brittney Leeanne Williams: The Arch Is a Portal Is a Belly Is a Back
The bent posture of a semi-abstracted female silhouette dominates 15 of the 17 artworks by Brittney Leeanne Williams, currently on...
Cajsa von Zeipel: Nine Lives
Nine Lives features sculptural tableaus that Cajsa von Zeipel populates with life-size silicone figures. Each figure is clothed in athleisure...
Alexa Horochowski: Nomeacuerdo (I-don’t-remember-land)
Alexa Horochowski’s exhibition, Nomeacuerdo (I-don’t-remember-land), at Hair+Nails Contemporary Art floats through poetic explorations of personal history, political movements, deep time,...
After Carolee: Tender and Fierce
When Carolee Schneemann passed away two years ago at age 79, there was an immediate sense that a bold visionary...
Paul Ramírez Jonas: Disappearing Vows, Disguised Lies
A variety of sacred and civic texts, an alphabet of letter blocks, a folding table, and a 16-foot marquee provide...