Reviews

Monica Cook: Liquid Vessels

SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA
By Friendship Magic Collective

Monica Cook’s “Liquid Vessels” at the SCAD Museum of Art invites you to travel across time and space in an archaic watercraft and examine a mysterious and beautiful collection of baroque relics from a fictional civilization.
This concise exhibition, which includes seven works (five [...]

Liza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds

Lehmann Maupin - New York

By Taliesin Thomas

During the course of her artistic career, the American artist Liza Lou (b. 1969, New York and raised in Los Angeles) has devoted her creative energy to a single material in magical, myriad ways-beads. Transforming this traditional ‘craft’ object into an enchanting medium to realize bold [...]

Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors

Curated by Hou Hanru and Giulia Ferracci
MAXXI - Rome

By Paul Laster

With more than 100 works in a wide range of media by 36 artists, “Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbors” offered a considered overview of art from the past 30 years by artists related to the Lebanese capital and its diaspora.
Spanning several galleries [...]

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

Guggenheim Museum - New York

By Taliesin Thomas
The hidden treasures of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) have finally realized their long overdue debut in a superlative retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future.” This euphoric show presented af Klint’s esoteric oeuvre [...]

Homecoming. That Paradise Feeling: Florida as Motif and Warning

The Drawing Room Gallery - The Lodge, Savannah, GA.
By Madeleine Peck Wagner
Paradise is a tricky place, not least because the best way to monetize it is to develop it-or so that’s the message the state of Florida’s leaders have been sending for decades. In that state’s crush of sprawling, automobile-centric development which [...]

Diane Arbus: Untitled

David Zwirner Gallery - New York

By Taliesin Thomas

Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) was a celebrated, influential photographer who captured the zeitgeist of the postwar America social sphere through numerous black and white visions of humanity that gave equal praise to celebrities and crazies alike. Her raw depictions of ‘outsiders’ and marginalized groups-including [...]

Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present

Lowe Art Museum - Miami
Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente
What many of us do through art is cultural marronage
My attitude may seem aggressive, because my discourse works like a manifesto against racism. Beyond the social condition or the skin color of a man, I am interested in the integration of human [...]

Christopher Nitsche: Liminal Ship II

Mobile Museum of Art - Alabama

By Kevin Lee

There’s a dim hallway at the Mobile Museum of Art brightened by the colors of the inner life. Through one end is a children’s exhibit; through the other a show abounding with ancient toil and weathered textures. Between them is the journey we all share, [...]

Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again

Whitney Museum of American Art - New York

By Taliesin Thomas

The recent Andy Warhol retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, “Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again,” offered an outstanding vision of this larger-than-life American artist and the full range of his artistic prowess. If the From [...]

Deborah Roberts: If They Come

Stephen Friedman Gallery - London UK
“You don’t need no ticket, you just get on board.”
- Curtis Mayfield
By Tim Hadfield

Deborah Roberts has been quietly building a solid reputation in the United States in recent years, confirmed by purchases for major museum collections, including the Whitney, Brooklyn and L.A. [...]