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Noah Becker's whitehot magazine of contemporary art

May 2022

"The Best Art In The World"

"The Best Art In The World"
May 2022

Julian Schnabel: For Esmé – with Love and Squalor at PACE Gallery by Sandra Vista - Los Angeles

The title of the exhibition: For Esmé – with Love and Squalor, originates from the J.D. Salinger short story by the same name.   read more...

Lesley Dill in Conversation with Deborah Frizzell - New York

Dill weaves imagery, text and historical visionary figures into a cascade of elongated figures, striking historical fonts, fractured stories and symbols.   read more...

Fred Sandback at David Zwirner by Jonathan Goodman - New York

Sandback’s highly specific, scientific title indicates that art of unusual sophistication can be made with the simplest of directions.   read more...

Brain+ Love+ at ilon Art Gallery by Vittoria Benzine - New York

An ardent proponent of experimental art throughout her 40 year career, Sandor and her team at (art)n have spearheaded new possibilities.   read more...

Joe Minter’s Heavy Metal and a Look to Southern America’s Creative Citizenship at March Gallery by John Drury - New York

Other than the incorporation of a pair of bowling balls embellishing two of the Minter works (these described as a diptych), all that is so poetically installed - at MARCH - is made entirely of welded steel.   read more...

Barthélémy Toguo x Petra Mason in Conversation - Miami

Toguo’s upcoming exhibition focuses on Rosa Parks, her memory and her commitment to the American civil rights movement and will be shown during the Dakar Biennial from May 19 to June 21, 2022 in the Senegalese Capital of Dakar.   read more...

Blue Oyster Mushroom Cult: Jessica Langley’s Hymenophore by Sommer Browning - Denver

As I watch the mushroom levitate and spin, I realize Hymenophore isn’t a story, it is a kind of evolutionary prototype.   read more...

Richard Nonas: Materializing "Ambiguity" by Erik La Prade - New York

The ambiguity Nonas expressed in his work was his attempt to get the viewer to avoid applying a single, specific meaning to what they are experiencing.   read more...

Life, Death, Hereafter Curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman by Vittoria Benzine - New York

“Chapel of the Good Shepherd.” Even though the space –amongst NYC’s hidden treasures–is under renovation, those in need of respite can still sit quietly amongst its storied walls.   read more...

Light & Matter: The Art of Matthew Brandt by Gary Brewer - Los Angeles

The exhibition Light & Matter is a fifteen-year survey of the artist’s work and it shows his endlessly inventive approach to creating an image.   read more...

Poem: Openings of Long Ago by Jeremy Hight - New York

Does the buzz of a moment dissipate like fog and dew   read more...

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