Reviews
SOFT POWER
SFMOMA’s recent exhibition SOFT POWER was a sprawling assortment of conceptual artworks by 20 prominent contemporary artists. Works on view...
Lydia Ourahmane: صرخة شمسية Solar Cry
A visitor to Lydia Ourahmane’s صرخة شمسية Solar Cry steps from the street into a thick, disjointed song, an ambient howl—and immediately begins to interrupt its melody. Three kilos...
Ceija Stojka: This Has Happened
When Ceija Stojka was 10 years old, she was captured by Nazi forces and sent to Auschwitz. Fifteen months later...
Rock My Soul
Emerging from an earth of silenced voices, artists take it upon themselves to speak for a community. Rock My Soul...
Laurie Kang: Beolle
Along the floor of the solarium in Oakville Galleries’ Gairloch Gardens lay unrolled, unfixed, and unprocessed photographic paper and films,...
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
At the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Cecilia Vicuña’s precarios dotted the walls, forming a constellation of repurposed materials. Plastic...
The Seventh Continent
The title The Seventh Continent refers to the Great Pacific garbage patch, which is a mass—approximately five times the size...
Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone
A bicycle-helmeted boy, shoulders drawn in slightly, stands on a ramp at the entrance of a parking garage. He is...
Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven)
“There are no wishes. There’s nothing. Not even tigers. We’re all there is.” Tigers Are Not Afraid is a gritty...
Great Force
The press preview was wrapping up. Journalists, community organizers, and artists were assembled at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA)...