Reviews
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
The show is divided into three parts: landscape, religion, and the Black body, and so references to place, ways of thought, and corporeality abound.
Fabienne Lasserre: Eye Contact
Paintings have always talked to walls—what’s on, built into, attached to, hung from, and tucked away inside them; how they...
Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley
“If I am such a legend, then why am I so lonely?” Judy Garland once lamented. The Hollywood icon was...
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction
Following a nine-year hiatus since its previous edition, the Atlanta Biennial was resurrected by Atlanta Contemporary in 2016 to present...
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...