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Don DeLillo’s Engrossing Yet Oddly Frictionless New Novella, The Silence
Reviewed by Dwight Garner The Silence by Don DeLillo Scribner, 128pp., has $19.22 NY Times Don DeLillo’s slim new novel, The Silence, is a pristine disaster novel with apocalyptic overtones. It’s a...
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Lockdown Be Damned! Raffaello 1520–1483: An Exhibition in Rome
at the Scuderie del Quirinale Reviewed by Ingrid D. Rowland Raffaello 1520–1483 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marzia Faietti and Matteo Lafranconi, with Francesco P. Di Teodoro and Vincenzo...
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Stalking Memory to Spy Out One’s Self in Patrick Modiano’s Invisible Ink
Reviewed by John Biscello Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano Yale University Press, 176 pp., $24.00 If there is a suitcase, forged documentation, café-life and tons of mileage accumulated tramping the...
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Excellence and Thrilling Abundance in LA Louver’s 45 at 45
at LA Louver, Los Angeles (through 16 January 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood 45 at 45, currently on view at LA Louver in Venice, is an exhibition of epic proportions, not only because of the sheer number...
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Envisioning a Gilded Vengence in Mark Steven Greenfield’s Black Madonna
at William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles (through 28 November) Reviewed by Lita Barrie Mark Steven Greenfield’s powerful exhibition of Black Madonna paintings, currently on view at William Turner...
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From Trauma to Transcendence in The Naked Mind
at Track 16, Los Angeles (through December 12) Reviewed by Genie Davis Curated by Georganne Deen, the group show at Track 16 Gallery is perhaps the ultimate exhibition for pandemic times. Titled The...
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Salmon Toor’s How Will I Know and Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake...
at Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC: Salmon Toor: How Will I Know (through 4 April 2021) and Vida Americana: Mexican Artists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 (through 31 January 2021) Reviewed by...
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Photography as Bildungsroman: On Jason Eskenazi’s Wonderland, Black Garden...
by Allyn Gaestel I lent Jason Eskenazi’s photo books to a friend of mine to look at after dinner. I had been carrying them in my suitcase for eight months. It was the night before a residency where I...
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art
at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (through 31 January 2021) Reviewed by Anna Shapiro NYRB The Whitney’s show, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, is a study in revisionism,...
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Hauntings in the Imagination: New Books on Bluesman Robert Johnson
by Greil Marcus Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow. Chicago Review, 326 pp., $20.05 Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C....
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Lettering The Yet Known: The Arcane Calligraphs of David D. Oquendo
by Lisa Zeiger “I dream of a new alphabet.” — Marcel Broodthaers, 1974 When considering the merit of a work of art, should the biography of its maker matter? Should we train the tentacles of...
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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (ended 1 November 2020) Reviewed by Sanford Schwartz Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art, November 20,...
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For Our Dyings: Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams and The Colony
by Lisa Zeiger “All I can see is the frame.” –Robert Mitchum in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past The art of Shirin Neshat is the pure, clear pool at the heart of a Persian garden. On its surface play...
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In Conversation: Andrej Dubravsky and Sam Trioli
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav + Friendly Slav, at LAUNCH F18, NYC by Sam Trioli Andrej Dubravsky speaks to Sam Trioli about his new paintings for his current dual exhibition at LAUNCH F18,...
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It Floods the Womb Until One Drowns
Reviewed Brandon M. Terry The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne Liveright, 612 pp., $27.52 NYRB At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the...
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Radical Black Dignity and the Shared Revolutionary Paths of Malcolm X and...
Reviewed by Brandon M. Terry The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph Basic Books, 384 pp., $18.99 NYRB Martin Luther King Jr. and...
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Simphiwe Ndzube’s Like the Snake that Fed the Chameleon
at Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (through 20 March 2021) Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a Cheshire cat. –Julian Huxley I will eat the...
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Being Apart: A Memoir of 2020
by Mark Goodman For us the new year began far from home at the southern tip of Africa. Apartheid — “apartness” — was a euphemism for racial brutality, and the necessary condition for its enactment: the...
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Portals for Memory, and Wonder, in the Work of Reggie Burrows Hodges
at Karma Gallery, NYC Reviewed by Hilton Als NYRB Reggie Burrows Hodges begins by painting a raw canvas black. Then he paints his figures and their atmosphere on top of that. His hand is everywhere in...
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Museum of Injury: Musings on the New MoMA
by Allyn Gaestel In New York, briefly at the beginning of the year, I stayed at the home of friends: a documentary filmmaker and a photographer, both from Italy. Another friend, a former farmer turned...
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