Reviews

A provocative, satirical take on everything wrong with the current zeitgeist. Derek Conrad Murray reports.

Westward expansion seen through the lens of a premier 19th-century documentarian.

First-ever career retrospective for a pioneering feminist/social practice artist. Elaine O’Brien reports.

The early years of SF’s Beat-era avant-garde. Terri Cohn reports.

Ideas on how blackness can be represented by museums. Maria Porges reports.

Art fashioned from the detritus of urban life. Julia Couzens reports.

Electric visions of an iconic landscape. David M. Roth reports.

The saga of colonial-era “triangular trade” continues. Ziying Duan reports.

Artists interject sound to better understand nature. George Philip LeBourdais reports.

Unwieldy, chimeric art that speaks of globalization’s corrupting impact. Soraya Murray reports.

Affirmations of identity that describe a world in flux. David M. Roth reports.

Drawings that reflect the stubborn residue of colonialism. Maria Porges reports.

Mining art history to remake painting. David M. Roth reports.

Two very different artists draw from a common source: abstract painting. Mikko Lautamo reports.

Classical and religious themes painted from a feminist perspective. Maria Porges reports.

Contemporary notions of self viewed through the lens of two pioneers. Tirza True Latimer reports.