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.
Hiroxi, Ubix, Orbis Tertius
Berlin-based Berta Fischer makes sculptures out of sheets of iridescent acrylic glass, contorting them in order to capture and refract light in ways that seem out of this world.
Life In Between the Lines
At age 104, Carmen Herrera finally has the opportunity to translate her paintings into sculpture, a project she began in the 1960s—to outsized results.
Folk Wisdom
Claudette Schreuders brings a sense of reverence to her sincerely carve wooden figurines in this show at Jack Shainman.
More Than Half
For the first time the Whitney Biennial’s curators have included a majority of female artists in their survey. 84-year-old Chicago artist Diane Simpson is one of them, with a room of her own.
Small Voices
In her retrospective “Other Situations” at el Museo del Barrio, Liliana Porter says a whole lot with very modest tools: mostly plastic figurines, tchotkes, collectible porcelain, and a whole lot of wit.
In Pen and Paint
Anne Truitt wore many hats: that of artist, that of mother, and that of writer. Read a book review of her diary Daybook.