Check out this line from John Yau’s piece onGeoffrey Todd Smith: “What is unsettling — and Smith clearly knows this — is that whatever we imagine will not be what happens.” Read his review for more such pearls.
And in his essay about a major exhibition of Native art at New Jersey’s Zimmerli Art Museum, curated by the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Petala Ironcloud notes, “What emerges instead is an art history that refuses erasure, one that has always been here, waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.”
That's not all. Anna Souter acquaints us with Ithell Colquhoun’s breathtaking canvases, and Tara Anne Dalbow visits a Los Angeles show featuring works by Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman, and P. Staff.
In the news, read about the postman who sat for Vincent van Gogh, a report on a major decline in art auction sales in 2024, and the troubling story of an art student at RISD whose visa has been rescinded without any explanation. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor |