Reviews

July 14, 2019 by Tom Stoelker

Bearded Ladies Cabaret at New York’s La Mama, musical theater takes on Walt Whitman’s racism

Tom Stoelker reviews “Contradict This!” a musical performance by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret for Stonewall at 50 that examines Walt Whitman’s problematic history with racism.

July 12, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Activist and ceramicist Roberto Lugo’s striking political installation at The Walters Museum

Susan Isaacs visits The Walters Art Museum Baltimore and reviews “Roberto Lugo at 1 West.”

July 1, 2019 by Matt Singer

‘Phantom Frequencies’ at Wheaton Art Center, Martha McDonald and Laura Baird’s Victorian parlor piece

Matt Singer visits Wheaton Arts to experience an enchanting musical and artistic performance, “Phantom Frequencies” by collaborators Martha McDonald and Laura Baird.

June 24, 2019 by Samuel Brown

Jonas Wood’s large architecture- and home decor-referencing works conflate digital and real

Samuel Brown reviews Jonas Wood’s exhibition at Gagosian Gallery on West 24th street in New York, closing July 19th, 2019!

June 19, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Investigating human observation in Mia Rosenthal’s “Earth, sky, past, present” at Gallery Land Collective

Deborah Krieger reviews Mia Rosenthal’s current exhibition “Earth, sky, present, past” at GALLERY Land Collective to July 5, 2019.

June 18, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Little Berlin’s ‘Make Room for Me,’ a thoughtful, slow-paced look at art by Middle Eastern queer and femme artists

Natalie Sandstrom reviews “Make Room For Me” at Little Berlin, a video- and photography-heavy show featuring eleven Middle/ Near Eastern queer and femme identifying artists.

June 17, 2019 by Ilana Napoli

Artist and activist Lise Soskolne of W.A.G.E makes her invisible art practice visible

Ilana Napoli reviews “The Work,” a two-part solo show by artist/activist Lise Soskolne at Baruch College’s Sidney Mishkin Gallery to June 20, 2019.

June 16, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Vital works by Augusta Savage, Harlem Renaissance hero, at New York Historical Society

Janyce Denise Glasper visits “Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman” at the New York Historical Society and experiences why this important female figure of the Harlem Renaissance is a hero to herself and others.

June 14, 2019 by Ray Simon

‘Encounters with Whitman,’ New group exhibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance celebrates queerness and the arts

Ray Simon reviews “Encounters with Whitman” at Da Vinci Art Alliance, open until June 16th, 2019.

June 5, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Twentieth annual ‘5 into 1’ exhibit highlights grads of five local art colleges and universities

Susan Isaac visits the ‘5 into 1’ exhibit and sees multidisciplinary art by graduate artists from 5 local art programs.

June 4, 2019 by Julia Marsh

Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery reflects the female in empowered feminist works

Julia Marsh reviews the work of important feminist artist Lynda Benglis, whose current exhibition “Over Air,” is at Locks Gallery until June 28, 2019.

May 31, 2019 by Logan Cryer

Soy Cuba/I am Cuba, at Arthur Ross, paintings of a country whose beauty hides its puzzling complexity

In their review of the exhibition “Soy Cuba/I am Cuba” at Arthur Ross Gallery, Logan Cryer says the Cuban artist Roger Toledo delivers a complex portrait of his homeland in art that is complex and conceptual.

May 30, 2019 by Alex Smith

Transcendence and Temporality, Black Quantum Futurism’s All Time is Local at Center for Emerging Visual Artists

Alex Smith reviews Black Quantum Futurism’s exhibition at Center for Emerging Visual Artists, All Time is Local, closing May 31, 2019.

May 29, 2019 by Matt Singer

Tristin Lowe on absurdity, the Big Bang, ‘Tiny Bangs’, blue jeans, and more

Matthew Singer interviews Tristin Lowe about his absurd sculptures and current exhibitions, “Tiny Bangs” at Fleisher/Ollman (closing June 1st, 2019) and “Emanation,” a group show at Wheaton arts and Cultural Center (closing December 31st, 2019).