What unites all these projects is a clear sense that they exist in a world unto itself: the digitized space.
Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former senior critic and Opinion editor for Hyperallergic. He is now a regular contributor to it and the New York Times. In 2020, he won the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism and in 2022 won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In 2024 he co-curated Get in the Game at San Francisco Museum of Art.
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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.
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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.
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Not Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That’s Needed Now
Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat.
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Why Are so Many Online Shows Phoning It In?
If a digital site is described as an “exhibition” I go to it wanting a visual experience animated by lively and inventive juxtapositions and means of navigation.
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The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power
“Behold” here, in this exhibition, is an invitation to see the intertwining of aesthetic concerns and the rigors of political and historical exploration.
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Renée Stout is a Do-It-Yourself Conjurer
Her witchery is mischievous, aiming to trick the beholder into a quite fragile enchantment.
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The Sun Also Shines In Florida
BOCA RATON, FL — One of the first things I see as I walk into the gargantuan Schmidt Center Gallery on the campus of Florida Atlantic University is a wall assemblage that in the aggregate, from a distance, looks like the profile of a fish gaping its mouth to swallow some floating trinkets. I get […]
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Tschabalala Self Dramatizes the Struggle to See and Be Seen
Sounding Board does not do what I expect from contemporary performance with its staged acting and scripted plot and dialogue, but it still succeeds.
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The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey’s documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
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The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle
We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.
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Mourning a Tree That Has Lain Down
Jean Shin’s “Fallen” bids goodbye to the longevity we thought we had and mourns it, so that we might let it go.