Weekend
May 1, 2021 • View in browser
In this weekend’s issue, the weight and weightlessness of materials and emotions are explored in reviews by Natalie Haddad, John Yau, Megan Liberty, Mengyun Han, and Gregory Volk. 
Looking back over the COVID year, Yau writes of the ways that Katherine Bradford’s new paintings convey the disconnectedness, vulnerability, and helplessness of that time, while Haddad, discussing the parabolic sculptures of the California Light and Space artist Fred Eversley, looks upon the rationalism of “Eversley’s elegant, jewel-like sculptures, as especially welcome, essential even, in times of unrest.”
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Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief
Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief
In her Mother Paintings, Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world.
John Yau
Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death
Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death
There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise.
Gregory Volk
A Year of Struggle in Words and Images
A Year of Struggle in Words and Images
Manjit Thapp’s first full-length graphic novel, Feelings, charts a young woman’s emotional journey through South Asia’s six-season calendar.
Megan N. Liberty
Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art
Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art
The four artists in the exhibition Silent Thunder display varying degrees of engagement with Buddhism — as a faith, an aesthetic choice, a school of philosophy, or a social phenomenon.
Mengyun Han
Fred Eversley's Joyful Light
Fred Eversley's Joyful Light
Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena.
Natalie Haddad
John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings
John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings
By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time.
John Yau
Required Reading
Required Reading
This week, the Tartarian conspiracy, labor issues at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, a Russian singer trapped in a Chinese reality TV show, Hollywood’s copyright obsession, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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