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5 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” That’s writer James Baldwin reflecting in an 1984 interview on his late mentor Beauford Delaney, the queer Black painter who introduced the young writer to New York City and opened up for him a new way to see the world.
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5 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
Posted inGuide Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.
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1 week ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive.
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1 week ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
Kiah Celeste’s To Be Held for a Long Time is an understated but profound portrait of transformation. For the past several years, the Louisville-based artist has been creating sculptures from found objects. What separates her art from that of most artists working in this vein is the elegance of her aesthetic, and the way she coaxes life from the objects without recourse to sentimentality.
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the long shadow of human history, with art exhibitions that span the local and global, past and present. While artists at the Bronx Museum engage with area communities and ecosystems, others at MoMA PS1 examine mass waste and excess, and the Morgan Library & Museum shows us how medieval Europe imagined the world.
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
It was a gray, rainy day when I visited The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World at the Morgan Library & Museum. Soon, I was jostling fellow museum-goers in the small room to glimpse the vast reaches of time and space that lay within the show’s manuscripts, far away from the dreary world outside. The exhibition focuses on a 15th-century global guide called the Book of Marvels of the World, by an unknown French author.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
In the storied histories of New York’s art scenes, the early years of graffiti have a magical sheen. They’ve been romanticized and cinematized so much that it’s hard to imagine what they were actually like for those of us who weren’t there. For this reason, and for the sheer excitement of it, Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3 at White Columns is not to be missed. Beginning in 1972, Matta-Clark took thousands of photographs of the city’s graffiti artists and their work.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Valentina Di Liscia |Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang | +4 more
Flipping through a volume with a bit of sand in its spine, basking in sun, and in no rush — this is how we were meant to read art books. With summer around the corner and visions of balmy parks swimming in our heads, we decided to compile a non-exhaustive list of summer art reads. Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad takes a look at a new biography of Yoko Ono, while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian uncovers nuggets of wisdom in a reissue of Jack Whitten’s studio notebook.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
As its title suggest, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight is two things at once: a group exhibition featuring longtime collaborators and an exploration of the art collective fierce pussy. Structurally, it’s more the former. With one exception, the works represent the individual practices of the core collective members.
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1 month 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?
