Julie Schneider

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Danielle Wu |Imani Wiliford

The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around. Lotus L. Kang’s assemblages at 52 Walker draw from diasporic memory, yet her draped film sculptures form an ongoing document of the exhibition’s idiosyncrasies of light and movement. Meanwhile, Rashid Johnson’s survey at the Guggenheim Museum draws from a dense network of Black intellectual thought, offering in turn a contemporary visual vernacular.

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Julia Curl |Daniel Larkin |Julie Schneider

From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday clothes, an exhibition that proposes different ways of looking at color is well worth a visit, as is one that brings together conceptual works by four longtime collaborators. And who can resist John Singer Sargent’s bewitching portrait “Madame X,” on view in The Met’s newly opened Sargent and Paris?

Feb 17, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hrag Vartanian |Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider

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. Sometimes we need to see the big picture to find meaning; other times it’s in the little things. And still other times, we can’t find it at all. Each of these perspectives is represented in the shows below, by artists including Alexis Rockman, Stephanie H. Shih, and Raoul De Keyser.

Jan 17, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |Lisa Zhang |Julie Schneider

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Jan 3, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |AX Mina |Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Daniel Larkin

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