Natalie Haddad

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad

CINCINNATI and CLEVELAND — Last year, Shahzia Sikander created a trio of complementary works for her traveling career survey Collective Behavior, currently at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art. “Gendered Currents: Gopi Regatta,” “Ode to Venice,” and “Procession” — a graphite drawing, intaglio print, and mixed-media collage, respectively — all depict a group of female figures on a gondola, a reference to the show’s debut at the Venice Biennale last year.

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad

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. A compact exhibition with a massive presence, Giant Women on New York at James Fuentes Gallery takes its name from a series of drawings and collages by Anita Steckel. In Steckel’s works, dating from 1969 to ’74, women the size of skyscrapers overtake New York City, their voluptuous curves challenging the authority of the phallic buildings.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad

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. Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, presents an especially complex case. A show dedicated to the author at the Morgan Library & Museum is worthwhile for any fan.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Seph Rodney |Alexandra Thomas

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 there’s nothing more satisfying than encountering the work of a creative force. Our favorite shows this week are each centered on a single figure. Some are visual artists, ranging from historical innovators (Volodymyr Tatlin) to under-appreciated names (Judy Linn) to perhaps unknown names (Abraham Lincoln Walker).

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements |Alexandra Thomas

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. The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman.