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Daniel Felsenthal

ART

Painter Dianna Settles Portrays Day-to-Day Life Amid Political Chaos 

In “Enemy of the Century,” figures live, work, and collaborate in human-scale utopias.

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Image from Auriea Harvey's survey at The Musuem of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.

ART

Pioneering Net Artist Auriea Harvey Uses Websites and Games to Poke the Internet

The Museum of the Moving Image’s survey exhibition “My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard” plots an artist’s perspective on the evolution of our digital worlds.

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ART

A Softer Violence: Diamond Stingily Finds Life’s Illusions in Suburban Closets

In “Orgasms Happened Here,” the Chicago-born artist looks inward and beyond.

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ART

‘Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures’: Humanity and Otherworldliness in the Artist’s Late Work

Hauser & Wirth’s quiet exhibition of pieces from the late 1960s deals with the constraints of the works’ fragility and finds a voice. 

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ART

‘Americans in Paris’ Surveys Artists Who Straddled the Fractured Culture of the Postwar World

NYU’s Grey Art Museum offers a salon-style take on second-generation expats in the Old World’s weary art capital. 

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ART

Eva Hesse’s ‘Expanded Expansion’ Has Aged at Human Scale

A focused exhibition of the artist’s sculptures explores how her work has aged, yet gained meaning, over the decades. 

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Village Voice article by Daniel Felsenthal about Suzanne Lacy exhibition at the Queens Museum

ART

Suzanne Lacy Investigates Art, Time, Location, and Society

The California-based artist’s retrospective at the Queens Museum explores the past, present, and future of questions in need of constant answering

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BOOKS

Reading, Writing, and Living in ‘Checkout 19’

Claire-Louise Bennett explores literature’s capacity to shape a life, and, at times, replace it

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BOOKS

Poetry, Prose, and Politics in Alejandro Zambra’s ‘Chilean Poet’

A new novel treads a shaky line between cultures in post-dictatorship Chile

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BOOKS

Let Us Compare Mythologies

A new book ventures to the farthest reaches of the Marvel Universe and returns with stories to spare

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