Galerie Lelong - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
This fall New York City is host to several significant exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, including Lin Tianmiao’s (b. 1961) solo show “Protruding Patterns” at Galerie Lelong. Lin is one of the distinguished stars of her generation and her art consistently invites a range of interpretations-from ‘handicraft-based’ [...]

George Bergès Gallery - New York
By Paul Laster
A rock musician turned artist, Johan Wahlstrom makes energetic paintings that blur the boundary between abstraction and figuration. Taking one of his own 2015 paintings of crowds of people seen from the performance stage as the point of departure, his solo show “Distorted Happiness” at George [...]

Law Warschaw Gallery - St. Paul, MN
Curated by Jehra Patrick
By Christina Schmid
Iyapo Repository, an ongoing project in residence at Macalester College’s Law Warschaw gallery in St. Paul, invites participation in creating an archive of the future. Envisioned by two New York based artists, Ayodamola Okunseinde and Salome Asega, Iyapo Repository pays homage to [...]

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei
Park Avenue Armory - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
In the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the young male protagonist leaves a trail of bread crumbs in the forest as means for him and his sister to return home. This attempt to outwit their cruel stepmother-who convinced their [...]

Brooklyn Museum - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986) is widely recognized as the stoic ‘Mother of American modernism,’ the unabashed creator of sensual female genitalia-inspired paintings, the lover to her mentor and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and in her later years, a recluse cloistered in the Southwest. Despite all her [...]

Telfair Museums/Jepson Center - Savannah GA
By Todd Schroeder
Piled in a corner of Maggie Mullin O’Hara’s persuasive and conspicuous exhibition (”I’m Trying To Tell You”) is the sculptural assemblage This Is My Nowhere, a sweep of 13 mismatched television sets from the 1990s-as if a collection of discarded relics, plucked from such places of distinction [...]

Lyndon House Arts Center - Athens, GA.
Curated by Jessica Smith and Susan Falls
By Dianne Totten
The Lyndon House Arts Center (Ware-Lyndon House, built circa 1840) in Athens, GA was the perfect setting for the “Fold Unfold” exhibition. The installation culminated after a long period of research on Southern coverlets, supported by a Craft Research [...]

Fred Gross is a professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where his focus is on the art and photography of the contemporary period. He has published numerous articles and reviews in Cabinet and Afterimage, and his book Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience (2012, University of [...]

Eduardo Carrera Rivadeneira is the chief curator of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Quito, Ecuador. He was co-director of No Lugar - Arte Contemporáneo, as well as Advisor and National Director of Museums and Archaeological Sites of the country’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage from 2015 to 2016. He has [...]