Critical Review

Critical Review

This week: Face Value at The Parlour, Tim Doud at Mono Practice, and Sue Crawford at ICA Baltimore.   Face Value, through November 2, featuring work by Sydney Cook, Taina ...

Black abstraction riffs like jazz, implodes and reassembles itself from the myriad influences that found its emergence. Black abstraction is rooted in a meta-consciousness, an ode to Black survival and ...

I am uncomfortably close to a plate breaking over an actor’s head, seated among the audience on my metal folding chair. The seating is designed for easy movement during the ...

In the late 1980s, a selection of new projects funded by the National Endowment of the Arts caught the concerned eye of Congress.

Susan Sontag created a sprawling and unwieldy definition in 58 points published in 1964 which inspired the Met's Costume Institute’s current exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion

If you have never encountered the concept of camp before, but saw some of the pictures of what the glitterati were wearing to the Met Gala, you might be forgiven for thinking it had something to do with ruffles, feathers, and general absurdity in fashion.

What happens to a city that can’t even imagine itself differently in the medium of film?

Jencso manipulates our attention to be just as glued to the devices as the girl in the image appears to be.

International Art English has enforced a hermeticism of contemporary art that is not particularly healthy

As a pragmatist and the editor of an independent publication that collaborates with artist groups and cultural institutions, I see so much room for improvement in the language and accessibility employed to attract new audiences

Joy Davis, Jessica Douglas, and Lawrence Burney demonstrate the possibilities of dynamic archival work

I felt completely okay shedding a few tears in the Dispersive Archives exhibition.

John Ruppert’s LAB: Empirical Evidence at UMBC examines our relationship to climate change in physical and psychological ways

What can we do against such extreme forces of nature?

Wanting More from the Rodarte Fashion Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani For the first time in its thirty years of programming, ...

A Gallery Roundup by Cara Ober and Bret McCabe If summer is a time for quietly experimental survey shows, September is blockbuster season. This fall, Baltimore is exploding with ambitious ...

Female Sexuality, Rage, and Power on Display: The Walters Art Museum and Amazon's I Love Dick by Cara Ober Walking into Art of Asia in the Walters Art Museum, I was weirdly reminded ...

The influence of Fred Wilson’s seminal 1992 intervention at the Maryland Historical Society is at once easily summarized and remarkably complex

Fred Wilson in conversation with George Ciscle at MICA

A Review of Decolonizing Alaska, a Group Exhibition at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design by Brendan L. Smith Alaska Natives have struggled for centuries against ...

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