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Rethinking Kandinsky
The problem with many of Kandinsky’s abstractions is that they don’t offer enough immediate visual information to “crack” his expressive code for color and form. | David Carrier
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Jennifer Coates Communes with the Gods of Nighttime Revelry
A thought experiment I sometimes engage in is to ask myself what kind of god would make the world that is being represented in the work I’m seeing. | Seph Rodney
E. Jane Explores the Diva in Us All
With the altar and the flesh the artist and performer provides the space for viewers to revere our shared icons while making space for the superstars of the future. | Madeleine Seidel
Paintings Rather Than Pictures
This desire to go beyond the ordinary without forgetting its existence seems to be one motivation that Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski shared. | John Yau
Lifelike Painted Statues Reanimate Museum Many Left for Dead
The objects and artists in Gilded Figures are so well chosen and so carefully interpreted that each section challenges divisions and rejects easy tropes. | Roko Rumora
When an Artist’s Body Breaks Down, Human Relations Become Crucial
Michael Mandiberg’s Timeframe exhibition gives the viewer a window into a period of time when they had to deal with the breakdown of their own body. | Seph Rodney
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Shervone Neckles, "Terciopelo: Bush Woman Collar" (2016-2021), on view in Roots/Anchors (©Shervone Neckles, image by Yao Zu Lu)
Roots/Anchors
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art through December 31
Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality
MoMA through January 1
Darren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show
Harkawik through January 2
Catherine Murphy: Recent Work
Peter Freeman, Inc. through January 8
Athena LaTocha: In the Wake of…
BRIC Arts until January 9
Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
Jewish Museum through January 9
