Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Aruna D’Souza

    Vincent Valdez depicts moments from the country's past and present that many would prefer to forget. Credit... Ariana Gomez for The New York Times Vincent Valdez depicts moments from the country's past and present that many would prefer to forget. Credit... Ariana Gomez for The New York Times It's easy to see why so many people describe Vincent Valdez's work as prophetic.

  • 1 month ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

    Renée Green Aruna D’Souza Space, place, and mapping: the artist explores themes of imperialism and colonialism in a new show at Dia Beacon. Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio. © Renée Green and Free Agent Media.

  • 1 month ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

    Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza Aruna D’Souza In a new exhibition by the two artists, a spectacular collision of land and tradition, borders and migration. Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos, installation view. Courtesy Art at Americas Society. Photo: Arturo Sanchez.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Aruna D’Souza

    A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of empires and seeded stereotypes of Asian women. The dragon lady, the courtesan, the submissive beauty - these enduring stereotypes of Asian and Southeast Asian femininity circulated in Europe and America centuries before the vast majority of Westerners had ever laid eyes on a real flesh-and-blood woman from those parts of the world.

  • 2 months ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

    American Job Aruna D’Souza An exhibition at ICP tells the people’s history of US labor from 1940 to 2011. American Job: 1940–2011, installation view. Courtesy International Center of Photography.