Weekend
December 22, 2019
New Takes on Christmas Music
You wouldn’t know it from listening to the same old hits on Christmas radio, but every year a flood of new Christmas music hits the market.
Lucas Fagen
Kiefer Overbrims His World
Anselm Kiefer draws down the world upon his shoulders in a mood of what can only be described as apocalyptic excess.
Michael Glover
The History Paintings of Jenny Snider
Snider’s interest in the relationship between popular culture, theater, dancing, innovative art, politics, and persecution, as seen through the lens of the Russian Revolution and Soviet art, addresses the present moment.
John Yau
The Somber Symbolism of Jill Mulleady
The Swiss-Uruguayan artist here challenges viewers with a single, colossal painting and a group of provocative conceptual pieces.
Valentina Di Liscia
Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.
Thomas Micchelli
Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us
From limbless bodies to gorging, ravenous figures to gouged surfaces, there has always been something broken and deeply damaged about Goodman’s art.
John Yau
Beer with a Painter: Richard Hull
“My lifelong project in my painting has been to locate myself.”
Jennifer Samet
Required Reading
This week, Peter Schjeldahl is dying, a new Jordan Casteel mural, decolonizing a colonial museum, a guide to emoji punctuation, monoculture on the internet, Baby Yoda cookies and cocktails, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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