Melissa L. Mednicov

Melissa Mednicov writes about her personal experience with and interpretation of a show of Jewish art and objects on view in Houston.

Melissa L. Mednicov writes about the touring Obama portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, on view through May 30, 2022.

The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.

Her intention as an artist was to inhabit a space outside of the snobbery of the traditional art space.

The experience of the performers on screen and viewers in the museum seems to dovetail.

"...if the museum is the repository for all society values, how is the prison the repository for all society seeks to disown?”

Jamal Cyrus and Jamire Williams unpack the possibilities, meanings, and connections of music’s becoming and its contemporary presence.

The heroines that populate Choi’s work at CAMH are tough, and joy is hard-won in the Cosmic Womb.

As the show’s title suggests, the curatorial impetus of the show is a renewed and revised consideration of the landscape, and an assertion of a female presence in that landscape.

The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.

The show is at its best in inviting the viewer to consider what Modernisms have been left out, avoided, or possibly forgotten.

'The X Files' and its tagline “I want to believe” seem pertinent here.