Albert Mobilio

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We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. It feels both eerie and stabilizing to read Octavia E. Butler’s books in the year 2025, when the realities she prophesized have come true. But the exhibition catalog American Artist: Shaper of God grants us a welcome opportunity to reflect on the lessons we can glean from her legacy, which critic Alexandra M.

May 13, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Albert Mobilio

Sometimes recognition comes too late: Melvin Way passed away this past February at the age of 69, just months before his first solo exhibition. The artist’s densely composed drawings featuring mathematical and scientific notations have been exhibited in many group shows in recent years. However, the extensive CO2 Blues at Andrew Edlin Gallery offers the fullest view to date of his quixotic pursuit: to convey messages from an elusive realm of knowledge.

May 5, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Elaine Velie |Lisa Zhang | +7 more

From an occult Renaissance manuscript to the history of eyeliner, we’ve got you covered for books to read this summer. Whether you’ll be lounging on a beach or praying for the arrival of fall, this is a season for slowing down, leaving books half-finished, and following your curiosity. Our staff and contributors have suggestions for wherever it leads you over the next few months, with recommendations for both old and new titles that entertained, moved, and perplexed us.

Apr 14, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Albert Mobilio

Luigi Zuccheri’s moody landscape paintings, now on display at Karma gallery, radiate an unnerving allure. In his impressionistic rural scenes a farmer carry stalks, fishermen edge toward the banks of streams, ramblers clutching walking sticks make their way on roughhewn paths.

Nov 15, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Albert Mobilio

There’s something appropriately jumbled about the Harry Smith show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. After all, it’s titled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten and the piecemeal nature of the exhibition is all too evident. A legendary figure among downtown New York artists, Smith was the underground’s underground bard.