To mark the end of the year and this decade, here is a recap of some shifts in our cultural climate. Our society seems …
Museum shows
The Fine Art Houston Both Needs and Deserves: Notes on the MFAH’s Retrospective of an OG Baddie, Beatriz González
From inside the traditionally austere, academic confines of Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts blooms a rainforest of change …
Curators of Culture
In 1974 Josef Beuys visited New York to do a performance he called ‘I like America and America Likes Me’ at the René Blo…
Norman Lewis, whose depiction of an American tragedy, American Totem, leaves you lingering and debating the highly political aspects of this work
American Totem makes you linger. The painting has been discussed at length since its acquisition by the Whitney Museum t…
Firelei Báez at the Mennello Museum of American Art
“Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez” at the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando is …
Interview with Artist Federico Solmi
Jamie Martinez: Congratulations on your recent shows, especially the solo booth with Ronald Feldman at the last Armory. …
Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial
Every two years the Whitney Biennial comes around, and almost always one is a bit disappointed. This year, the exhibitio…
Fear of a Black Mountain: Tampa Museum of Art’s Elevation of Abstract Expressionism
There is a formidable father figure hovering over the powerful double exhibition of broadly-defined Abstract Expression …
Alicja Kwade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden
Born in Poland in 1979, Alicja Kwade’s family moved to West Germany in 1987, where she studied art in Berlin; she contin…
‘Nari Ward: We the People’ at the New Museum
Nari Ward’s art is as unique and imaginative as it is tied to the things we use and encounter daily. Instinctively under…