Archive for October, 2019
By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
She finds great company in aloneness. A strip of light beneath a closed door; colors flapping from a clothesline; gray raindrops squiggling down a city window; a snowy, headlit hill; a lunar eclipse.
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
GRANADA STILL BEARS WITNESS to the golden age of Islamic culture in the palaces of its Alhambra, in the gardens of Generalife, and in the neighborhood of Albaicín, which grew across the Alhambra
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
THE PRESENT FEELS INESCAPABLE, like a miasma too close, too everywhere, to apprehend. Yet it is precisely because of this blinding proximity that the present demands to be given shape in a lasting,
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
During Letícia Ramos’s first solo exhibition in the US this past summer, smoke from tens of thousands of fires in the Amazon rain forest darkened the city of São Paulo, where the artist lives. Emmanuel
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
To behold a ruin is to bask in melancholia. Add misty, early-childhood memories and a primal, punk-metal soundtrack, and one sinks deep into the affective murk. Amy O’Neill concocted just such a heady
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Tallur L. N. makes quixotic sculptures and installations that draw on India’s rich tradition of figurative sculpture, recontextualizing this almost clichéd iconography to wryly critique transformations
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Ninety-seven-year-old Pierre Cardin is fashion’s first mogul; his name evokes the epitome of French chic the world over, though he’s Italian by birth. His story is one of both creative and commercial
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Cast and carved from sober materials such as marble, wood, and bronze, the deceptively lissome sculptures of Alma Allen contain more than one crack at the idea of truth in materials. In press and press
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
The painter T. C. Cannon (1946–1978) was only thirty-one when he was killed in a car accident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, leaving behind a startlingly mature body of work that deserves wider recognition.
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By: Art Forum on Thursday, October 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
If, as Nicolás Guagnini opines in the set of notes that accompanied “Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina” (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)—his third solo exhibition at Bortolami—“all paranoia
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