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In Carol Wainio’s pictorial realm the fabled creatures of Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop, haberdashery-clad rabbits, and children plucked from Victorian illustrated postcards dwell in forests that are part Gustave Doré, part Jean-Antoine Watteau, and are expressionistically rendered.
Read MoreAs art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial, the scene is definitely bustling this spring.
Read MoreBY SOPHIE LEE - CULTUREDMAG.COM
SEPT 6, 2023
In her first U.S. solo exhibition, the artist takes a critical look at the building of cityscapes and their implications on everyday life.
Read MoreL’artiste montréalais, Chih-Chien Wang, présente sa première exposition solo aux États-Unis, une rétrospective baptisée A Bright Circle réunissant ses œuvres des 18 dernières années.
Read More‘‘Now, it’s nothing to do with headcheese or tofu skins, but The Times’s Blake Gopnik put me on to this Corri-Lynn Tetz show at Arsenal Contemporary in Manhattan. Blake’s right. The paintings are terrifying.”
Read More‘‘Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in the Upper East Side with Lynne Drexler’s paintings. Then head to Chelsea for Rudolf Stingel’s Conceptualism with a sense of humor. Afterward, see Nicky Nodjoumi’s “Miami” paintings in NoLIta, and Corri-Lynn Tetz’s terrifying images of girlhood in TriBeCa.”
Read More‘‘Meet the Toronto artist whose practice combines sports, fashion and racial issues.”
Read More‘‘From Esmaa Mohamoud at Arsenal Contemporary to the Flag Art Foundation’s group show curated by ex-football player and arts patron Keith Rivers.”
Read More‘‘The Kendrick Lamar lyric “If a flower bloomed in the dark, would you trust it?” comes to mind when looking at Esmaa Mohamoud’s installation Darkness Doesn’t Rise to the Sun, But We Do. Awash in a murky orange light, a field of matte black dandelions sprout across the gallery which has been covered in steel, diamond-treaded flooring.”
Read More« Cela faisait plus de 20 ans que Geneviève Cadieux n’avait pas exposé à New York. La dernière fois, c’était en 2000, à l’Americas Society, pour une exposition commissariée par Stéphane Aquin, devenu depuis directeur du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. »
Read More‘‘The exhibition presents a very eloquent portrait of where we currently are as a society, wavering between mimicry and stand-off, wallowing in the nostalgia of good pre-digital times, and looking at meaning outside of ourselves.”
Read MoreAs galleries around the world begin to slowly reopen, we are spotlighting individual shows—online and IRL—that are worth your attention.
Read MoreA look at what the female gaze really means in the time of Coronavirus, as seen through the eyes of eight artists, tackling subjects from loneliness to ageing to disease.
Read MoreShelley Adler’s portraits of women are striking. With a deft economy of forms she captures the enigmatic quality of the human gaze, loaded as it is with the sorrows, pleasures, and hopes of individual experience.
Read More“The first truth is the form,” instructs a deadpan, disembodied male voice in Suzy Lake’s 1975 video The Natural Way to Draw, in which the artist, caked in a layer of white paint, shades lines and contours across her face, pausing briefly to take puffs of her cigarette.
Read MoreWith so many of the galleries we love closed for the forseeable future, many by appointment only, we are just catching up and reminding people that some great curated shows were happening recently that deserve attention.
Read MoreJanet Werner has spent decades exploring the form of the portrait. Culled from fashion magazines, her women peer through thick mascara, don elaborate outfits, and inhabit bodies Werner has stretched and warped in paint.
Read MoreIt’s a sunny Thursday afternoon as I head across town to Toronto’s east end and Walter Scott’s studio - a bright room with high ceilings where his works in progress seem camouflaged amid the studio furniture.
Read MoreJoin artists Bambou Gili, Eliza Griffiths, Nadia Waheed, Janet Werner, and the curatorial fellow at the New Museum Jeanette Bisschops for a conversation in conjunction with the exhibition “This Sacred Vessel (pt.2).”
Read MoreOne of the first things Suzy Lake did after moving to Montreal in 1968 from her native Detroit—a city whose fiery upheavals had recently jolted her into political consciousness—was enroll in mime school at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous.
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