Tobi Kahn: Formation: Images of the Body

By Douglas Dreishpoon

JUNE 2022 | ArtSeen

Kahn has painted in the fertile gap between representation and abstraction for more than forty years: landscapes, seascapes, flowers, cells, and human bodies distilled into evocative images. An ethos unites Kahn with kindred modernists—Hilma af Klint, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, Arthur Dove and Albert Pinkham Ryder, Rothko and Barnett Newman—who courted ambiguity as a pictorial language of equivalence.

Faith Ringgold: American People

By Ann C. Collins

MARCH 2022 | ArtSeen

Organized by The New Museum’s artistic director Massimiliano Gioni with curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and curatorial assistant Madeline Weisburg, American People is jam-packed with more than forty years of Faith Ringgold’s most prominent work.

What Are White People So Afraid Of? Claudia Rankine’s Help

By Alexis Clements

MARCH 2022 | Theater

Alexis Clements reflects on a trio of works by Claudia Rankine—an essay, a book, and a new play starting March 15 at The Shed—dissecting how they circle a question that has caught Rankine’s, and the zeitgeist’s, attention: why is it so hard for white people to confront their whiteness?

Troy Montes Michie: Dishwater Holds No Images

By Christian Liclair

MARCH 2022 | ArtSeen

Troy Montes Michie’s Dishwater Holds No Images continues his use of textiles to tell stories of resistance, and expands his work in collage into a space-consuming format.