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Shana Nys Dambrot

ART

Beatriz Milhazes’s Labors of Love at the Guggenheim

The Brazilian artist’s maximal process brings forth forceful abstractions of delicate beauty. 

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VOICE CHOICE

Nevertheless, These Two Artists Persisted

Sawyer Rose and Fleur Spolidor’s canceled show at the United Nations found a new home in Brooklyn — but this is not a feel-good story.

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ART

Olafur Eliasson’s Phenomenological Prismatics Shimmer on Both Coasts

The Danish-Icelandic artist opens up about his relationship to time and place.

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Review of Terry Allen's Truckload of Art bio.

BOOKS

Artist/Musician Terry Allen’s Life Story, Adapted for the Page

‘Truckload of Art’ indeed: A boundary-smashing talent gets the genre-defying biography he deserves.

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Image from Enrique Martínez Celaya' show at the Hispanic Society in New York City.

ART

Painter Enrique Martínez Celaya and the Hero’s Journey

The Hispanic Society’s current show taps art history, architecture, and the power of a good origin story.

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CULTURE

Review: The New Documentary ‘Taking Venice’ Combines ‘Combines’ and Cold War Conspiracies

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg did Venice “American Style” — 60 years later, Jeffery Gibson finds new ground to stand on. 

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FILM

An Inventive New Documentary Gives Us Frida In Her Own Words

‘Frida’ travels from the artist’s Mexican roots through a global treasure map of fascinating archival materials.

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James Audubon print of the extinct Great Auk featured in Village Voice article about eco-artist Brandon Ballengee.

ART

Ecology-Minded Artist Brandon Ballengée Pictures What We’ve Lost 

Both subtle and dramatic, these haunting works give form to the void of extinction. 

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Sun Ra in photo by Bob Crawford from a Village Voice article about the 1977 FESTAC Festival.

CULTURE

A Festival of Black Culture From Almost Half a Century Ago Comes Back to the Fore

For one month in 1977, Lagos was the epicenter of global Black culture.

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Guadalupe Rosales uses archival materials in her art.

ART

Meet Interdisciplinary Archivist Guadalupe Rosales

“I am a high school dropout but was fortunate to really push myself and meet people who saw me. When I moved to NYC that is where I realized I could call myself an artist and take it seriously.”

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