New York: Patrick Angus’s Honest Images of Gay Life

With the temperature finally thawing a bit, now might be a good time for a masked and safely distance

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With the temperature finally thawing a bit, now might be a good time for a masked and safely distanced stroll. Why not check out the artist-designed billboards on view as part of Walls for a Cause NYC? Danilo Machado highlights their favorites.This week, Cassie Packard writes on Patrick Angus’s tender images of gay life, painted amid the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Ragna Bley’s swirling abstractions and Reggie Burrows Hodges’s earthy pastels are also a sight for sore, screen-strained eyes.Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair starts today. Staff writer Valentina Di Liscia highlights nine exhibitors you shouldn’t miss. –Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

What Not to Miss at Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair

Calipso Press will feature its 2021 calendar, a 12-piece riso printed mosaic featuring photographs by Valeria Giraldo (image courtesy of Calipso Press)

Due in part to its virtual format, this year’s fair is the largest and most international one yet. Featuring more than 400 exhibitors from over 40 countries, there’s sure to be plenty to choose from. Check out nine you shouldn’t miss.

Latest Reviews

Patrick Angus’s Honest Images of Gay Life With their Fauvist hues and Pop-inflected renderings, Angus’s drawings and paintings, made amid the AIDS crisis, intrinsically queer the Western canon. Cassie Packard

Ragna Bley’s Cerebral, Swirling Abstractions Equally intuitive and intellectual, Bley’s paintings redirect a time-honored form of abstraction into a more communal, cosmic unknowing. Billy Anania

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In Inky Blacks and Earthy Pastels, Reggie Burrows Hodges Crafts Collective Portraits Dwelling somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Hodges’s impressionistic paintings enact a critique of rugged individualism. Alexandra M. Thomas

Bold Colors and Surreal Compositions Upend the Monotony of Commercial Billboards A collaboration between We Buy Gold and Orange Barrel Media, Walls for a Cause NYC presents a safer, yet still poignant opportunity for art viewing. danilo machado

Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story I cannot think of another narrative painter as expansive, surprising, funny, unsettling, tender, wacky, challenging, theatrical, and radically imaginative as Angela Dufresne. John Yau

News

Ethics Recommendations Museums Can Implement Right Now Museums and their stakeholders can start to address and fix systemic issues by implementing three basic transparency measures that put ethics into action. Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt

Citing Epstein Ties, Dartmouth Community Calls for School to Rename Leon Black Arts Center Alumni and students are calling for Dartmouth to rename the Black Family Visual Arts Center following revelations of Black’s financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Valentina Di Liscia

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