Soul of a Nation
The Broad Museum
How do you disappear when you’re already invisible? The unnamed narrator/protagonist in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) would answer by instead choosing to reappear to…
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Tim Hawkinson
Denk
While the underlying engineering of Tim Hawkinson’s artworks appears to be of an extraordinarily complex order, the raw materials with which they are made, taken…
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Fred Wilson
Maccarone
“The aim of the dreamer…is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world… But the aims of life are antithetical…
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Cayetano Ferrer
Commonwealth & Council
“Many years ago,” Maggie Nelson writes in her memoir, The Argonauts, “[the poet Anne] Carson gave a lecture …at which she introduced (to me) the…
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Sara Kathryn Arledge
Armory Center for the Arts
Featuring over 60 works on paper and seven films, “Sara Kathryn Arledge: Serene for the Moment” discloses the brilliance of one singular artist who never…
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Inheritance
Fowler Museum
Three immersive films from Africa about political and cultural resistance use tropes of the Imaginary from Fanon to Lacan to challenge inherited postcolonial mindsets. Kudzanai…
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Flora and Fauna
515
Sometimes there is that rare and ineffable dialogue between artists that resists being quantified or easily understood. It’s like snow or the first time you…
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Color Out of Space
Lowell Ryan Projects
A lot happens in the room at the Lowell Ryan group show Color Out of Space, so much that it seeps into more than one…
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Oli Epp
Richard Heller Gallery
Oli Epp is a young London-based artist whose humorous paintings depict contemporary pop culture and our abject relationship to technology and commerce. The brashly colored…
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Purvis Young
James Fuentes, Salon 94 - New York
A single black scrawl—Young—hovers over painting after painting. It may cover the side of a building or a truck—and indeed the artist hung his work…
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Erica Weitz
Instagram Art Pick
Instagram, for all its corporate complications and endless lifestyle posturing has become a viable avenue for artists to share work. It’s the open, free for…
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“What happens to a dream deferred?” This question asked by Langston Hughes in his poem Harlem sets the stage of Charles White’s development as an…
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Museum Joy
The 57th Edition of the Carnegie International
The last time I was bowled over by an artist’s installation was Damien Hirst’s Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings at Gagosian, New…
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Stargazers: Intersections of Contemporary Art & Astronomy
Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
The Stargazers show at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion in Costa Mesa, curated by gallery director Tyler Stallings to coincide with the opening of…
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Laura Owens
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Why, exactly, is Laura Owens’ art so compelling? This is a question I’ve been asking myself since I was in art school. Elusiveness seems intrinsic…
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CÉcile B. Evans
Chateau Shatto
Cécile B. Evans’ stand alone installation, “Something Tactical is Coming,” generates a deliciously satisfying SciFi dystopian theatricality. The bulk of the installation at Chateau Shatto…
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