Visual Arts
Raffaella della Olga prepares manual typewriters the way John Cage prepared pianos, using their percussive power to completely subvert their original purpose.
Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.
For biographer Andrew Durbin, Peter Hujar and Paul Thek are historical figures from a lost era that he wants to discover on his own terms.
Gauri Gill’s work is shaped by a dense visual language in which light, composition, and texture are not secondary elements but stand as active components of meaning.
In light of our current government, the show provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving.
Wifredo Lam can now be seen almost in full in New York — except for his many drawings, which might get a showing soon while the public’s interest is piqued. As for the artist’s paintings in Cuba that never reached MoMA, Americans (perhaps in uniform) might have a chance to see them soon enough.
Overall, the exhibit offers a fascinating look at photography’s potential to pose challenging questions about who we are, how we are perceived, and how we can alter our self-image to interrogate our own sense of identit
The exhibit suggests that Isabella Stewart Gardner wanted her art curation, intellect, and fashion sense — the areas of her life over which she had the most agency over — to be her legacy, not her image.
“Taking a Line for a Walk: Alexander Calder & Paul Klee” and “An Imagined Dialogue: Alberto Giacometti & Mark Rothko” are touching reminders of the remarkable kindness inherent in making art – the desire to reach across time and space to offer something to another.
Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy
At a moment when arts and culture, public education, historical memory, and American democracy itself are under coordinated attack, silence is not a neutral posture. It is a decision with consequences.
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