Archive for September, 2019
By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
In 1966, only four years out of the Royal College of Art in London, David Hockney was already a star. James Scott, a contemporary of Hockney’s, had received acclaim for short films he’d made with actors
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
In her first solo show at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Martha Tuttle went back to the roots of materialist philosophy. For “The Dance of Atoms,” the artist framed her ambitions with the words of Lucretius,
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
The late German artist Herbert Zangs (1924–2003)—who worked primarily with cardboard, staples, wood, and white paint in the years following World War II—generated a sorely underrecognized oeuvre that’s
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Kyle Dunn, Martine Gutierrez, Gerald Lovell, Reba Maybury, and Sophia Narrett were the six artists featured in “Do You Love Me?,” a group show that took on a number of subjects,
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
The retrospective at the Met Breuer of the late Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015) was also the first solo presentation of her art in the United States. Aptly titled “Phenomenal Nature,”
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
In the span of a year, San Francisco–based designer and writer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon unveiled a new mural commissioned by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
ONCE A MONTH, on the sixth floor of an old Manhattan office building, about a dozen people gather to try to speak one of the island’s original languages. Our teacher is Karen Hunter, who learned
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
The Glen Park Library: A Fairy Tale of Disruption, by Pamela M. Lee. New York and San Francisco: No Place Press, 2019. 112 pages.IN OUR NEOLIBERAL GILDED AGE, it has become commonplace, even banal,
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
This exhibition of fifteen small, intimate, and oddly fugitive works on paper—prints, drawings, and collages—by the late Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996) gave the viewer a glimpse into the sundry phases of
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By: Art Forum on Monday, September 30th, 2019 at 11:00 pm
In 1977, Douglas Crimp observed that “while it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems that they have usurped it.” How understated that declaration appears
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