3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (419+ words) In a sea of zany little sculptures and assemblages, shiny stuff™, abstracted horniness, and kitschy vibrancy, there were works I did enjoy. It's a sweeping overstatement, I know, but it's just that there were trends and tropes everywhere I turned....

11+ mon, 4+ day ago   (523+ words) One vinyl panel reads, “I am drawing the man who raped me.” Another portrays a man lying on the floor unattended in a subway station. The knowing faces of Stanton’s portraits are everywhere: beneath turnstiles, on columns, pathways, bright screens…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (121+ words) Though smaller than previous editions, the contemporary African art fair draws our attention to works that are tactile, surprising, and alive with material expression. Graduate student work representing 19 advanced degree programs will be on view online and in person at…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (735+ words) The show, New York's only art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art, featured uniquely tender subversions of this year’s topical theme. After a day of Googling why my back hurt (sedentary computer lifestyle, inflamed SI joint), it only made sense…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) This year’s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance. Artist-run press Armenian Creatives also engaged with diasporic threads, focusing on translation as a form of cultural resistance....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (257+ words) Shadows aren’t an afterthought in her work, but another dimension of it — another way one thing can contain or serialize into an infinity. I love that the curators took the time to carve that same pleated-paper pattern into one wall…...

11+ mon, 5+ day ago   (181+ words) The painter accuses the gallery of retaining over $1M worth of artworks in a claim that challenges models at the heart of the artist-dealer relationship. Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (542+ words) Conductor Art fair at Powerhouse Arts seeks to represent the underrepresented, with some notable overlap with next week’s Venice Biennale. Exhibitor booths started at $2,500 for nonprofits and $3,500 for artist-run collectives and spaces, topping out at $12,500 for the largest booth. Self-representing…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (542+ words) History museums and blackjack tables might not seem to cater to the same audience. But two developers bet that including cultural institutions in their proposals to open new casinos in New York City would entice community leaders to approve their…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (116+ words) This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism. Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to…...