The Guardian
Rashid Johnson on broken men, the black body and why Trump is bad for art
‘How does the black body function in space, when it’s being witnessed, versus when it’s not?’
Vogue
‘These Are Challenging Times’: Rashid Johnson’s New Work Is a Powerful Response to Modern Anxieties
‘At 42, he’s one of the strongest voices in contemporary art, a multi-media artist who is immersed in the world around him, and this has been a breakthrough year.’
artnet
Painter Ed Clark’s First Hauser & Wirth Show Radiates Effortless Beauty. But It’s the Product of Decades of Toughing It Out
‘His first show at Hauser & Wirth certainly represents a clear statement of faith that the contemporary interest in and vitality of the 93-year-old painter’s work isn’t going away.’
Art Review Asia
This Is Not America
‘Los Angeles is a myth that’s lodged in our collective memory. It’s nowhere and everywhere.’
Los Angeles Review of Books
Pain and Resilience: Philip Guston at the Crossroads
‘In these wildly inventive and rudely satirical drawings, not only does he manage to skewer Nixon the man and the president, but in doing so, he plants many of the seeds of forms that are central to the paintings created during the rest of his life.’
The New Yorker
The Amy Sherald Effect
‘When art changes in the present, it changes in the past, too. I had a dizzy sensation at the Sherald show – which was so much better than I had expected – of ground shifting under my feet.’
Los Angeles Times
Review: If an artist sets up a homeless camp inside a blue-chip art gallery, does anyone care?
‘Hammons’ work exposes, indeed occupies, such gaps. Art is often a rarefied realm where quotidian experience is transformed, but Hammons’ practice also prods us to see the art in the everyday. It points out the door, toward life.’
