Reviews

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).

May 29, 2019 by Samuel Brown

The story of heroic Jewish immigrant Moe Berg in ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’

Samuel Brown reviews “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” a 101 minute long film that tells the story of Moe Berg, American spy and Major League Baseball player.

May 22, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Pressure and resonance at the Print Center with James Siena and artists who type

Natalie Sandstrom reviews “James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure” and “New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print” at the Print Center.

May 15, 2019 by Mandy Palasik

Visiting Kentuck Knob, the other Frank Lloyd Wright house in Western Pennsylvania

Mandy Palasik visits Kentuck Knob, the lesser known residential work by Frank Lloyd Wright, and explores the surrounding nature!

May 13, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Chains and flowers evoke beauty and togetherness in ’Recombinants’ at C. R. Ettinger Studio

Deborah Krieger reviews Joan Wadleigh Curran’s exhibition “Recombinants,” on view at C. R. Ettinger Studio until May 17th, 2019.

May 6, 2019 by Chuck Patch

Tod Papageorge’s early color photos in Steidl’s ‘Dr. Blankman’s New York,’ good addition to the art canon

Chuck Patch reviews a beautiful new book of early color photographs by Tod Papageorge, active in the mid-1960s circle of photographers that included Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and others.

May 5, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Influenced by Wyeth, Mario Andres Robinson’s powerful portraits of people of color

Janyce Denise Glasper visits The Florence Academy in Jersey City, NJ, for a powerful exhibit of watercolor portraits by Mario Andres Robinson.

May 2, 2019 by Sarah Kim

Do Ho Suh stitches time, identity and memory in The Perfect Home II at the Brooklyn Museum

Sarah Kim reviews Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s ghostly “The Perfect Home II,” (2003) a gauzy translucent stitched fabric recreation of his one-time apartment in Chelsea.