Posts from February, 2015

Grave and Buried: Alfredo Jaar and Nicaragua’s Ignored History


Using photographs by Koen Wessing, Jaar remembers a moment in the nation’s decades-long cold war strife.


Afghanistan in Time: Simon Norfolk at Benrubi


A photographer tracks time in a beautiful landscape wounded by war.


By This River: Greg Lindquist Paints Against Coal-Ash Pollution


An ongoing installation in Wilmington, NC, uses art to call attention to the devastation of environmental despoilation.


Always the Bride: Maria Yoon’s Marriage Experiment


The artist’s documentary about her 50 marriages explores the institution’s changing place in American culture.


Pop History: Jiri Georg Dokoupil’s Modernist Bubbles


The artist uses an idiosyncratic technique to make colorful paintings of bubbles, following in a long line of Modernists.


States of Mind: Scooter LaForge Paints Cross-Country


The artist has documented his journey across the United States in bright and colorful paintings of passing moments.


Tell Me: with Eric Sutphin


The first in a new series of features of two people taking about one artwork in person.


Like This: An Exhibition of Near-Representations


A show of paintings and sculptures by three women takes allusion as its theme and raison.


Sonia Delaunay in Paris and London


A traveling retrospective of the artist and designer’s work charts her mix of fine and applied art through the previous century.


“Hard to Explain”: Lisa Bradley’s Mysterious Abstractions


on view Hollis Taggart Galleries through February 28