Archive for September, 2020
By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Gene Beery’s life is thoroughly imbricated with his art, so to fully understand this mini-survey, a little background is in order. In the early 1960s, Beery did the New York art thing: He worked at the
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
STILL A CARRIER OF THE PAINTING VIRUS. These words, handwritten by Niele Toroni and posted near the gallery’s reception desk, greeted visitors to the artist’s recent exhibition “Un tout de différences”
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
THEORY ON TUESDAYS, guests on Thursdays. So goes the weekly rhythm of the Whitney Independent Study Program: seminars led by the program’s legendary founding director, Ron Clark, followed by sessions
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Joe Light’s painting Kiera, 1989, is an undulating, almost corporeal landscape anchored by three red hills set against a light-blue sky. In the pink foreground are a trio of pronged forms that resemble
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
NEARLY THIRTY YEARS of filming the same face, the same body: The old chestnut that “every fiction film is a documentary of its actors” takes on special meaning in the many works Tsai Ming-liang has
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Artists and identical twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson, whose collaborative career spans more than thirty years, possess a seemingly insatiable appetite for all manner of psychic, social, and
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY lies at the heart of Louis Draper’s artistic life. In the autumn of 1956, when he was the cameraman for his college newspaper in Petersburg, Virginia, someone left a copy of Edward
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
An entire genre of quarantine art reflecting on the experience of isolation emerged this past summer. Jessica Wilson’s Not Normally at Rest, 2020—a suite of animated videos starring an anthropomorphized
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
I COLLECT WOMEN. The saved tab of my Instagram account contains—in addition to recipes, funny videos I intend to DM to crushes, and nimble axioms on wellness in pastel fonts—images of women, each
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 11:00 pm
If the various isolative protocols necessitated by the recent lockdown have changed our relationship with the wider world, they have just as surely reshaped the ways we perceive and inhabit our own
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