Noah Becker's whitehot magazine of contemporary art

Pictures From a Pandemic: Christy Rupp: one of the earliest artists to focus her attention both on the threatened wildlife habitat and on our increasingly fragile ecosphere by Anthony Haden-Guest - New York

Studio projects evolved into a collage series about Displacement, Amnesia, & Landscape. Finally I am back to where I thought I’d be in June.   read more...

Now's the Time: Eight African Painters by Paul Laster - New York

Now's the Time: Eight African Painters, on view as part of SCOPE Immersive from September 17 to September 20, features the work of eight contemporary artists.   read more...

Les Levine on Gordon Matta-Clark: An Interview by Erik La Prade - New York

The 1985 exhibition catalogue, GORDON MATTA-CLARK: A RETROSPECTIVE, which accompanied the exhibition, contains a number of written encomiums and short personal memoirs on Matta-Clark.   read more...

Shaman in the House! Symbols of Healing and Transformation in The Art of Imam Sucahyo at Galerie Robert Poulin by James D. Campbell - Montreal

There is no doubt that each work by this artist is the expression of an ecstatic state of creative ipseity.   read more...

The Ugly Truth: Otto Dix’s Art by Donald Kuspit - New York

Otto Dix is a master of the aesthetics of ugliness—murderous ugliness of the body and soul, and above all of society, as his War works make clear.   read more...

Joseph Nechvatal on "Introspection: Expérience Pommery #15" - Paris

Urban social distancing has been reminding me of Jean-Paul Sartre’s renowned appraisal that “L’enfer, c’est les autres” (Hell is other people).   read more...

Seeing is Believing: Emeka Udemba’s Painterly Vision of Humanity by Paul Laster - New York

Captivated by creativity ever since he was a teenager helping his photographer father to hand-colorize his black-and-white pictures, Nigerian artist Emeka Udemba was destined to be an artist.   read more...

At Home Behind the Camera: Photographer Christopher Mitchell Captures the Exceptionally Ordinary by Noah Sonnenburg - Pasadena

Never hiding their flaws or outright dilapidation, Mitchell’s work offers veracious vignettes into the corners of American living.   read more...

Joseph Arthur's Best by Cori Hutchinson - New York

When musician and self-taught painter Joseph Arthur was handed the keys to Michele Mack Gallery months ago mid-pandemic to inhabit as an informal studio, he did not anticipate the body of florid work that would follow.   read more...

E Pluribus Unum: Marcus Jansen's First U.S. Museum Show to Open at Cornell Fine Arts Museum by Noah Becker - New York

Marcus Jansen will be having his first U.S. solo museum show, opening Sept 18 at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL. I asked him a few questions about his working process.   read more...

Azzah Sultan's "Anak Dara" at Trotter&Sholer by Vittoria Benzine - New York

NYC-based boutique art firm Trotter&Sholer commemorates their first brick and mortar space on Thursday, September 10th with their first opening.   read more...

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