Northwest Notes: Dispatch from the Pacific
by Noah Dillon
An absolutely, totally huge tour of art offerings throughout the Pacific Northwest, even going to Canada!
Gaining Traction: Industrial-scale Collaboration in Philadelphia
Traction Company at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
24 Hours on My Favorite Planet Alone
by Paul Maziar
Paul Maziar goes wandering through his bookmarks and finds unexpected poetic connections.
Aesthetics and Social Justice: “Arresting Patterns” at ArtSpace
An exhibition and its extracurricular programming explore artistic representations of mass incarceration.
The Dream Life of Forms: Paintings and Drawings by Deborah Remington
Her strange and beautiful work was on view at Wallspace this summer
Structured by Color: Stanley Whitney, Works from the 1990s and Now
by David Rhodes
shows at Karma Books (extended through August 30) and the Studio Museum in Harlem
History in the Making: Noah Purifoy at LACMA
The late artist’s assemblages move out of the desert and into the museum.
Inside the Outside: Five Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation
by David Cohen
at the Katonah Museum of Art through October 11
Author as Imaginary Friend: The Dull Spectacle of “The End of the Tour”
by Noah Dillon
A new film about a famous author inadvertently raises the problem of substituting images for people.