Originally published in the Freer | Sackler Galleries’ Whistler in Watercolor digital exhibition catalogue. â—Šâ—Š In the early 1880s, James McNeill Whistler was a house guest at Moreby Hall, located south of York in Yorkshire, where he encountered the scene that fills this watercolor. The manor house, built between 1818 […]
Originally published in Artforum’s Critics’ Picks. â—Šâ—Š Rafael Soldi’s exhibition “Cargamontón†features selections from two of the artist’s recent series that consider dissonance as a tool of identity formation. Hung across one wall in three rows are twenty-five of the fifty self-portraits Soldi took in a photobooth over the span […]
Originally published in Art in America’s January 2019 issue. â—Šâ—Š Rina Banerjee’s midcareer retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), “Make Me a Summary of the World,†feels like a serendipitous pairing of an artist’s corpus and an exhibition space—even though Banerjee’s sculptural installations, brimming with sundry […]