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rate_review review schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 46 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Comment | Catherine Opie shows us that in dark times, looking for joy can be radical

The artist Catherine Opie is currently the subject of a major three-decade portrait survey, 'To Be Seen', at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition highlights Opie’s career-long commitment to representing the LGBTQ+ community, specifically the leather dyke scene in Los Angeles, through a lens that balances defiance with playfulness. Even her most provocative works, such as the 1993 self-portrait featuring a domestic scene carved into her back, are revealed to contain elements of humor and historical allusion that counter the despair of the AIDS crisis and personal heartbreak.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 23, 2025 visibility 2 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

Review: Alex Da Corte’s colorful, pop-inspired art show in Fort Worth

Alex Da Corte's exhibition "The Whale" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the first museum show to focus on his relationship to painting, though it defies traditional definitions. The show features a variety of works including "puffy paintings," "slatwall paintings," and "reverse glass paintings," alongside a video where Da Corte portrays Marcel Duchamp. Curated by Alison Hearst, the exhibition also integrates some of Da Corte's works into the museum's permanent collection galleries, a first for the institution.

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rate_review review schedule May 30, 2025 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

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David Hammons has released a "post-exhibition catalogue" through Hauser & Wirth Publishers, six years after his 2019 survey at the gallery's Downtown Los Angeles location. The 12-by-12-inch, nearly 7-pound volume contains hundreds of images—installation shots, artwork reproductions, and ephemera—but no text whatsoever: no table of contents, essays, titles, dates, or page numbers. The book functions more as an artist's book than a traditional exhibition catalog, presenting Hammons's work in a raw, unapologetic sequence that resists scholarly interpretation.

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rate_review review schedule Mar 24, 2026 visibility 9 link 8 artists, 6 galleries

What Did Happen or What Might Have Happened or What Can Never Happen. Dustin Hodges by Nick Angelo

Dustin Hodges presents a new body of work across two exhibitions, "Barley Patch" at 15 Orient in New York and "Barley Patch 2" at Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles. The artist utilizes thin layers of pigment, color glazing, and distemper on linen to create compositions that superimpose cartoon motifs, such as black crows and characters from the "Arthur" series, over complex grids. His process involves a cyclical layering that drives a wedge between the logic of the image and the materiality of painting, resulting in works that feel both choreographed and visceral.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 22, 2026 visibility 7

Inside LACMA’s Eye-Popping New Home, How Do You Find the Art?

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has opened its new David Geffen Galleries building, a major architectural project designed to be a glamorous cultural beacon. The building itself is a striking landmark, but the exhibition spaces within present significant challenges for the display of art, creating a complex, maze-like environment for visitors.

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rate_review review schedule Mar 19, 2026 visibility 6 link 1 gallery

Jan Vorisek’s Flaccid Columns

Artist Jan Vorisek's exhibition at Arcadia Missa features sculptures titled IGBTTLTVOE (Elbow), created from mass-produced plastic moulds used for casting decorative Doric columns. The artist modifies these cheap, prefabricated objects with 3D-printed curved sections, bending them into flaccid, wormlike structures that undermine their intended classical dignity and function.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 1, 2026 visibility 7 link 2 artists

Book Review: The Disoriented Garden... A Breath of Dream

A new book titled 'The Disoriented Garden... A Breath of Dream' has been published by the Jim Thompson Art Center to accompany Vietnamese artist Trương Công Tùng's 2024 solo exhibition. The volume, edited by Hùng Mạnh Dương, is a multilingual, multidisciplinary collection featuring poetry, myths, curatorial texts, and photographs that mirror the artist's exploration of nature, gardens, and spiritual cosmology through video, installation, and painting.

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rate_review review schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 5 link 1 gallery

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Mark Fingerhut's software-based artwork "Halcyon.exe: The Ride" (2024) is gaining cult status as it tours indie venues like Public Works Administration gallery in Manhattan and Sulk Chicago, before appearing as a star attraction at "Rhizome World" at Water Street Projects in New York's Financial District. The piece takes over a computer desktop, flooding it with images, videos, and text in a choreographed, immersive experience that includes vibrating seats, wind, rain, and synced spotlights, evoking the sensation of art-as-malware.

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rate_review review schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 7 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou by Arnisa Zeqo

Artist Anastasia Pavlou’s practice is explored through her engagement with literature, memory, and the materialization of language. Her large-scale paintings, which draw formal comparisons to Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism, function as conceptual lexicons where titles—often direct citations from writers like Dionne Brand and Virginia Woolf—carry as much weight as the paint itself. Works such as "The Reader Interrogates Narrative, but Poetry Interrogates the Reader" demonstrate her interest in the "spectral" side of nomenclature, where naming serves to summon ghosts of the past while acknowledging the failures of language to capture emotion.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 7

REVIEW: Now is not forever, when art mimics reality

Theresa-Anne Mackintosh’s solo exhibition, "Now is not Forever," recently debuted at the Wits Art Museum (WAM), featuring a provocative blend of older paintings and new sculptures. The show centers on anthropomorphic figures and the erasure of senses, notably in the "hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil" series, where body parts are painted over to symbolize the avoidance of moral decay. These works, alongside vivid sculptures representing the artist's alter egos, challenge viewers to look past aesthetic surfaces to confront the inherent chaos and dysfunction of contemporary society.

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