Prettiness Is Political for Marie Laurencin
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? … Girls are so much prettier,” Marie Laurencin once told a Time magazine reporter. This…
Julia Warhola Was an Artist in Her Own Right
Duane Michals, “Untitled (Andy Warhol and Mother)” (1958), gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) (photo by Duane Michals, courtesy DC…
Pepe Imagines a Hippo’s Perspective on Life
Pepe is hard to put into words. The enigmatic film exemplifies brilliant filmmaking yet fumbles in its esotericism. In the broadest terms, Pepe is a…
How Friars Changed the Art of the Renaissance
Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of…
The Eternal Dance of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
In line for tickets at The Met’s Great Hall, I spotted the massive calligraphy of Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, a 2024 museum commission whose broad…
Martha Diamond Found Joy in Paint
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Martha Diamond: Deep Time at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the first posthumous exhibition of work by the artist, who passed away…
Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories
SEATTLE — In the edge becomes the center at the Frye Art Museum, Mary Ann Peters invokes the suppressed histories of mass killings and forgotten…
Artists Find Energy Justice in Grassroots Acts
In the 1970s, the humanist geographer Yi Fu Tuan speculated that “in some ideal future, our loyalty will be given only to the home region…
Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space
Cecilia Vicuña’s practice of recollecting — in both senses of gathering and remembering — doubles as an act of care for that which time, loss,…
Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home
EAST LANSING, Michigan — The road from Detroit to Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum is bleak in winter. Gray permeates everything — the sky,…
