Weekend
June 27, 2020
The White Melting Pot
The work of Jiha Moon and Stephanie H. Shih is both aesthetic and political, a commentary on assimilation as a process in which one’s national origin is not forgotten or erased.
John Yau
The Moral Complexity of War Games
An-My Lê is a Vietnamese-born photographer who has portrayed — and participated in — re-enactments of the Vietnam War.
David Carrier
Lorna Simpson’s Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity
Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.
Kate Silzer
Nature as Filtered Through a Screen
How do we experience eco-art online and what might it suggest about the nature of the digital gallery experience?
Louis Bury
Ying Li’s Ecstatic Landscapes
Li had to reinvent herself as a gestural painter in her 30s, after years of painting traditional ink-wash landscapes and Soviet-style propaganda.
John Yau
The Limits of a Rapper’s Comedy
Lunging for the most obvious jokes on Find the Beat, Blueface is desperate to be heard and understood.
Lucas Fagen
Required Reading
This week, museums and white supremacy, feminist art and the image of Aunt Jemima, reviewing a book about art and prisons, talking about reparations for Black Americans, a racist sculptor skit, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
From the store...
Vincent van Gogh Action Figure
Brighten up your home office with this adorable action figure of post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, who comes with a removable ear and an easel to display 5 miniature reproductions of some of his most famous works.
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