Art Criticism Roxane Gay on How Artist Calida Rawles Shows Us a New, and More Humane, Way of Bearing Witness The writer explores the significance Rawles's painting "High Tide, Heavy Armor." By Roxane Gay, Oct 12, 2021
Art Criticism If You Don’t Think Jasper Johns Can Still Surprise You, Wait Until You Get to the End of This Review The Whitney and the Philadelphia museums' vast Johns survey is a chance to figure out why he works the way he does, and what it means now. By Ben Davis, Oct 12, 2021
Art Criticism The 34th São Paulo Biennial Has Spread Out, Slowed Down, and Opened Itself Up—But Some Old Barriers Remain “Though It’s Dark, Still I Sing” has been rethought to respond to the pandemic and the political moment. By Tiago Gualberto, Sep 30, 2021
Art Criticism Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing “Convergent Evolutions" is elegantly radical in how it opens up new conversations around its artists. By Folasade Ologundudu, Sep 9, 2021
Art Criticism Why You Should Take Note of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Whose Shapeshifting Assemblages Build a Mythology of Survival “Ex Situ Canis Latrans” at Murmurs L.A. shows this artist's powerful symbolic use of broken and decaying materials. By Barbara Calderón, Sep 1, 2021
Art Criticism Huguette Caland Is One of Lebanon’s Most Famous Artists. But a Big Part of Her Story Has Remained Hidden “Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” looks at an artist who is also the daughter of one of Lebanon's most famous politicians. By Ben Davis, Jul 21, 2021
Art Criticism Welcome to Pandemic Aesthetics: How the Health Crisis Is Reshaping Contemporary Art—and Changing the Way We Look at It, Too The "pandemic intervenes again and again" in shows by Jill Magid, Pope.L, and other artists. By Lori Waxman, Jun 30, 2021