Check out this line from John Yau's piece on Geoffrey Todd Smith: “What is unsettling — and Smith clearly knows this — is that whatever we imagine will not be what happens.”
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April 09, 2025

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on a major decline in art auction sales in 2024, and the troubling story of an art student at RISD whose visa has been rescinded without any explanation.

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Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up

The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life. | Petala Ironcloud

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Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings

Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history. | John Yau

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Works by Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman, and P. Staff ask us to acknowledge loss — but also to see it as a way into altering the shape of our world. | Tara Anne Dalbow

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