In New Haven, where I’ve been looking at pictures for fifteen years or more, I found myself navigating the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA)’s exhibition, J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality backwards.
Remaining true to the original story, Genevieve Goffman has etched into the chest of her golem the magic letters that bring it to life and, when altered, deprive it of life: אמת (emet), which means “truth.”
Multidisciplinary San Francisco artist Vanessa Woods uses photography in this show to examine the concept of motherhood, her own motherhood in particular, using images, or rather portions of images, of her children.
Fergus McCaffrey’s exhibition Co Westerik, Later Paintings: 2002–2016 consists of eight medium-sized works from the final two decades of Co Westerik’s artistic career.
I was never a huge fan of Tracey Emin’s work. I, like many others, viewed her as a radical whose identity as a Young British Artist (YBA) and celebrity seemed to precede and overshadow her artistic practice.
Eight early works of Robert Irwin’s, ranging from 1962 to 1971, installed straightforwardly and exquisitely in Pace’s Los Angeles gallery, is just about as good as it gets.