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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

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...

Winslow Homer, Darwinian Realist by Donald Kuspit - New York

If art is an imitation of nature, as Plato said, then Homer’s imitation of nature...is truer to nature than Monet’s imitation of nature.   read more...

Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne at Centro Botin by Joseph Nechvatal - Paris

Ellen Gallagher’s syncretic show A law… a blueprint… a scale at Centro Botin in Santander, Spain imparts a cool love of haute volupté.   read more...

Sandra Cinto at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery by Vittoria Benzine - New York

The show’s first room alone offers a spectacle of eight large-scale canvases in identical sizes, space dust accreting into bridges and waves.   read more...

Hiroyuki Hamada: New Work at Bookstein Projects by Jonathan Goodman - New York

This show, his fifth with the gallery, presents four paintings and two sculptures.   read more...

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