There are more important things in life than art. That’s the lesson of the current Whitney Biennial. I think that’s the lesson, anyway. Certainly, featured artist Zoe Strauss must know it’s the truth. Her untitled video installation projects photographs of the people and environs of Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., documenting what she saw while aiding Read More
There are more important things in life than art. That’s the lesson of the current Whitney Biennial. I think that’s the lesson, anyway. Certainly, featured artist Zoe Strauss must know it’s the truth. Her untitled video installation projects photographs of the people and environs of Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., documenting what she saw while aiding Read More
Kentridge’s Charcoals: I Saw the Movie
The South African artist William Kentridge, whose first American retrospective is currently at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, describes his work as “an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings.” That it is also political art-or, as Mr. Kentridge specifies it by using the most Read More
