Boiled Coca-Cola, Human Fat, Cigarette Ash: The Materially Driven Art of Contemporary China
By turns spectacular and taciturn, "The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China" presented viewers with an inordinate number of substances.
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The Psychic Heft of Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Disfigured Portraits
Although Nathaniel Mary Quinn's faces look collaged, they're actually rendered with oil, paint stick, gouache, and pastel, usually against a plain colored background. He works intuitively but…
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Vaginal Davis’s Video The White to Be Angry Is a Ham-Fisted Caricature of Right-Wing Extremism
In a political moment riven by dogmatism, Vaginal Davis's work subverting categories of race and gender is freshly urgent.
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Arturo Herrera’s Latest Works Reinvigorate Modernist Collage Practices
Venezuela-born, Berlin-based artist Arturo Herrera breathes life into well-worn practices of modernist collage, exploring the tensions between exactitude and spontaneity, placement and displacement.
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Joseph Sterling’s Mastery of Midcentury Photographic Innovations Was Both a Strength and a Weakness
Joseph Sterling died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow…
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial Radically Rethinks Landscapes of Power
The charged, evocative third edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial pivots away from the young initiative's early hallmarks.
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Martha Tuttle’s Textiles Merge Modernist Aesthetics with Molecular Theory
Martha Tuttle stitched together creamy-hued patches of wool and pieces of thin open-weave linen that she colored with flinty gray mineral-based pigments. She stretched the resultant geometric…
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Was Manet Ever Truly Modern?
Critics and art historians often take Édouard Manet to be the first master of reification, the original modern painter. Evidence of that mastery is intermittent at best in the exhibition "Manet and…
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Brittany Nelson Puts a Sci-Fi Spin on Closeted Gay Life
Brittany Nelson's exhibition merged the biography of New Wave author Alice Sheldon (pen name, James Tiptree Jr.) and the lonely wanderings of the Mars Opportunity Rover.
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Yinka Shonibare
"A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE" inaugurates the Driehaus Museum's exhibition series spotlighting the work of contemporary artists of color, an exciting new direction for this Gilded Age…
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