Contributors
Andrea K. Scott
All Work
- Photo Booth
A Trans Latinx Artist’s High-Fashion Critique of Colonialism
Gutierrez’s most powerful pictures turn indigeneity into a darkly magical superpower, moving past conventions of feminine beauty.
October 20, 2018
- Culture Desk
The Empty Gesture in Banksy’s Self-Destructing Art Work
The shredded “Girl with Balloon” might become even more valuable than it was before; if Banksy’s stunt was intended to mock the spectacle of art being reduced to a price tag, the joke might be on him.
October 8, 2018
- Culture Desk
Which Artists Should the Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Invite to the Moon?
Maezawa has said that he would like his passengers on SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket to be drawn from a range of fields, including painting.
September 23, 2018
- Culture Desk
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Cubist Portraits Address the Psychic Ruptures of Gentrification in Brooklyn
The artist recognizes an old borough vanishing, and his portraits convey what he describes as “the complexities of the human essence.”
September 15, 2018
- Culture Desk
Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries
Women including Judith Eisler, Joan Mitchell, and Charline von Heyl are out in full force this week.
September 8, 2018
- Culture Desk
Richanda Rhoden, a Fascinating Painter Whose Work Was Rarely Shown in Her Lifetime
In Brooklyn, the artist’s kaleidoscopically colored canvases are on display in an exhibition that serves as a memorial to an overlooked talent.
August 31, 2018
- Cultural Comment
What Klaus Biesenbach Means for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
The beleaguered L.A. institution is betting on another New Yorker to help solve its problems.
August 3, 2018
- Photo Booth
Ryan McGinley’s Exhilarating, Contemplative “Mirror, Mirror”
The photographer’s new series represents a new direction for an artist whose work has always been both a looking glass and a lookout.
August 2, 2018
- Culture Desk
An Invaluable, Incomplete Show of Black Southern Art at the Met
Validating “outsider” black artists by comparing them to “insider” white ones feels like an unnecessary legitimizing strategy for art that soars on its own merits.
June 18, 2018
