Easter Rituals: Art that Brightens the Dark Times

ArtReview
March 2022

Laura Raicovich on Adrian Paci’s film U’ncuontru and learning how to be together again in an age of perpetual crisis

Museums Are Never Neutral

Frieze
March 2020

Neutrality is a veil for wielding power: this is the status quo that requires resistance.

Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA

Hyperallergic
January 2020

MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation. Photo: Jasmine Weber

Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power

Hyperallergic
December 2019

Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.

Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Sculptures Echo the Precariousness of Place

Hyperallergic
December 2019

Cruzvillegas’s forms embody the precariousness and hope, if not the danger, of contemporary notions of borders, and the forces at work that make them porous or impenetrable.

The Pioneering Painted Sculptures of Melvin Edwards

Hyperallergic
December 2019

Edwards’s sculptures, on display at Alexander Grey Associates in New York, establish him as a master of his various crafts with with an acute sense of rhythm and movement.

Jeffrey Gibson’s Artistic Remixes, From Song Lyrics to Indigenous Craft

Hyperallergic
December 2019

Gibson’s ongoing explorations of identity and art history have produced a dizzying range of forms over the course of his career.

LaToya Ruby Frazier Looks Beyond Blue-Collar Stereotypes

Hyperallergic
November 2019

In The Last Cruze, the artist hones in on the vast inequities that persist in US society, as well as the tender relationships that enable survival and persistence in spite of them.

Centering the Equator in Global Conversations About Art

Hyperallergic
November 2019

With its focus on art from Indonesia and Southeast Asia, this year’s edition of the Biennale Jogja offers a fresh take on discussions of centers and peripheries.

Janine Antoni Traces the Passage of Time in a Cemetery’s Catacombs

Hyperallergic
November 2019

The artist’s new commission leaves much to contemplate simultaneously — mortality, desire, and the ways in which absence and longing are such a fundamental part of life.

Why Libraries Have a Public Spirit That Most Museums Lack

Hyperallergic
November 2019

A broad swath of society seems to feel more welcome in a public library rather than a museum. I examined the Brooklyn Public Library as a model of heightened engagement through collective knowledge creation.

An Encyclopedia Connects Record Labels to Political Movements Around the World

Hyperallergic
October 2019

Graphic designer and activist Josh MacPhee’s third edition of Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels unlocks a whole world of political storytelling.

The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum

Hyperallergic
October 2019

In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.

What Properly Addressing the Migrant Crisis Might Look Like

Hyperallergic
October 2019

Artist Alicia Grullon performs the role of a UN representative for refugees to address the migration crisis at the southern US border.

Diary Entries From a Feminist Curator’s Encounters With Picasso

Hyperallergic
September 2019

A steadfast feminist in a male-dominated art world, Joanna Drew was among a handful of individuals who shaped contemporary visual art in Great Britain post-World War II.

The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum

Hyperallergic
September 2019

Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that bring thousands of artworks to screens across the globe. Here’s what most folks download.

A Former Museum of Modern Art Director’s Meticulous Eye for Detail

Hyperallergic
September 2019

As a non-specialist Rene d’Harnoncourt had a rare ability to engage deeply with objects across time, cultural specificity, and form.

How to Curate a Yearlong, Three-Part Exhibition

Hyperallergic
September 2019

Curators Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker unpack Perilous Bodies, Radical Love, and the upcoming Utopian Imagination exhibitions — three exhibitions that formed one series for the Ford Foundation Gallery’s inaugural year.

In Hong Kong, Protestors Are Using Zines to Get Their Messages Out

Hyperallergic
August 2019

The speed with which the Hong Kong demonstrators’ informative zines have been distributed, collected, and even exhibited internationally is remarkable. We spoke with ZineCoop, one of the groups behind the effort, to discuss why they are so powerful.

An Artist Designs a Handbook to Help Migrants Survive

Hyperallergic
August 2019

If art and culture can go beyond symbolic power and occupy both poetic and utilitarian registers, Mladen Miljanović succeeds with his Didactic Wall exhibition.