Latex Anxiety
How should we feel about Hannah Levy’s sculpture? Eminently touchable, but psychologically disturbing, her work plays into deeply seated Freudian feelings we might not want to admit we have.
The Spirits at the End of the World
Leonora Carrington was both a surrealist painter and writer. Wendi Norris Gallery has brought her work alive by staging a live dramatic reading in front of these sinister works.
Short Takes
Join less than half on a ramble through the Lower East Side gallery scene, on the lookout for female artists.
Exposed and Together
The Internet meets History to astonishing effect in Frida Orupabo's Cables to Rage at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Harlem.
The Work of Art in the Age of Political Misrepresentation
What makes political art good? 20th German artist Kathe Kollwitz and contemporary British artist Sue Coe have radically different approaches to the same problem.
*, a museological study
Toyin Ojih Odutola's To Wander Determined at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Helen Johnson's Ends at the New Museum in New York City
Tracing A Line
Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa makes an impression at David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea in this subtle but impactful show of wire sculpture