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Post-Conceptualism to Neo-Surrealism, Postscript
Art is a hot mess: history, crisis, denial and lessons from recent public art stumbles
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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September 2022

August 2022

Good and Bad #6: The Mezzanine, The Novelist
Adam Rothbarth asks: Is The Novelist a beautiful example of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, or is it a mournful reflection on an increasingly despairing…
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Adam Rothbarth
Reality al dente: Authenticity and The Bear
Since when has the goal of art been to recreate reality? Is reality so good that all artistic endeavors should seek to reproduce it?
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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Adam Rothbarth
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Spencer Lewis at Harper's
What a great thing it is to be, just a painting: free, true and unencumbered, serving no aim but its own.
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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July 2022

Good and Bad #5: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
Adam Rothbarth asks: Whose story are music biopics really trying to tell?
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Adam Rothbarth

June 2022

The Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
For Juneteenth, a little-known engraving of a world historical moment
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Allison Hewitt Ward
Richard Serra at David Zwirner
In the dumbest century, Serra continues to do the most ridiculous thing: he makes quality works of art
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Allison Hewitt Ward

May 2022

Good and Bad #4: WeCrashed, Super Pumped, The Dropout
Adam Rothbarth asks: There’s been a rash of great tech shows recently. But who are they really about?
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Adam Rothbarth
Jinn Bronwen Lee at Regards
A painting show in Chicago plays with the gallery space and shows that painting still has a few tricks left to wield
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Barbarita Polster
The Whitney Biennial is Not Good
"Quiet as It's Kept" is the pungently curated 80th edition of a show that ostensibly marks the moment in art.
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Allison Hewitt Ward
Music in the Shadow of Politics
Jessa Crispin on the Royal Opera's production of Wagner's Lohengrin
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Jessa Crispin
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