Art Review
Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy With New Ways of Drawing
After the triumphant “Sugar Baby,” the artist pushes her incendiary art into the present, merging collage, political cartoons and history painting.
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After the triumphant “Sugar Baby,” the artist pushes her incendiary art into the present, merging collage, political cartoons and history painting.
By ROBERTA SMITH
The forward drive that Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson embraced seems utterly contemporary — and covetable — today.
By JASON FARAGO
For his first installation in Mexico, the artist JR has pasted an image of a child overlooking the United States from the Mexico border. It’s viewable only from the northern side.
By MELENA RYZIK
Treasures from Native artists of North America, a structure with a rotting organic foundation and a trip back to photorealismville are on offer this week.
By ROBERTA SMITH, MARTHA SCHWENDENER, JASON FARAGO and WILL HEINRICH
The artwork, “Tower,” is on the exterior of a stairwell at the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital in Paris’s 15th arrondissement.
By ROSLYN SULCAS
The artist isn’t heartbroken by the works he can’t afford; instead, he lines the walls of his inner sanctum with works he simply likes to “feed off.”
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
In its third year, this annual pop-up space for interactive installations attracts the likes of Jill Soloway, Emma Roberts and Jake Gyllenhaal.
By MELENA RYZIK
After recent events in Charlottesville, Va., a London exhibition by African-American artists takes on a new dimension.
By ROSLYN SULCAS
There’s a bumper crop of designers around the globe who are hitting their stride, adding new depth to architecture.
By REED KROLOFF