Reviews

If “talking about art is like trying to French kiss over the telephone,” then what is making art about Antonin Artaud like? Ben Marks looks at Allen’s take on the celebrated French poet.

Gleason continues to stretch the limits of abstract painting, this time by applying acid-etched molten silver to canvases that range in mood from lyrical to post-apocalyptic.

Hanna Hannah explores what’s left of the powers of dissonance by framing news-media images of war and other assorted tragedies against floral backgrounds.

From the sublime to the ridiculous and from failed comedy to philosophical musings on nature, BAN6 presents a scatter shot but compelling view of Bay Area art.

Mixing motifs from Japanese woodblock prints and late 20th century pop culture, Hardy, a career tattooist, returns to his fine art roots.

When the government failed to produce evidence of WMDs, Justin Amrhein created his own, in schematic drawings that mix the real and the absurd.

Large-scale works from iconic artists and an installation that activates powerful oppositions makes “Big A%# Sculpture” a must-see summer show.

Can thrift-store landscape paintings be re-deployed to say something that’s not kitschy or condescending? After 20 years, this duo is still counting the ways.

Smashing and reassembling porcelain tiles, the artist demonstrates, in the most literal way possible, the old “truth-to-materials” credo.

For more than 50 years, he’s transformed found and fabricated pieces of tin into “paintings” that annex large tracts of art history. Now, Berlant raises the stakes on the game he invented.