Many responses to the Villa Baizeau in two exhibitions take up the notion of memory — and the idea of how life affects the built environment, and vice versa.
Reviews
A San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds
With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime.
Aboard a Floating French Clinic, Art Enables Healing
On the Adamant documents how art allows patients to translate confounding experiences into imagery — what one might call the poetry of the everyday.
Why We Still Need the Godzilla Network
If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.
FotoFest Houston’s Power Lies in What Remains Unseen
For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.
Can Women Save America?
Girls State follows a group of young women participating in the mock political program in Missouri just before the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
What’s Lost When Activist Art Enters the Institution?
The institutionalization of radical history in Women in Revolt! inevitably blunts the message, and streamlines the complex whole into a concise lineage.
London’s Royal Academy Looks Critically at Its Past
The academic rigor of Entangled Pasts is counterbalanced by the poignant responses by contemporary artists and some astonishingly inspired curating.
Javier Arce’s Collaboration With the Spanish Wilderness
The artist considers his own place in the complex history of landscape painting through canvases stretched imperfectly on wood from trees around his home.
History Is a Warning in Neue Nationalgalerie’s Collection-Based Exhibition
Seen today, histories of radical feminist positionality and liberational struggle reverberate with stinging intensity.