Contributed by Bill Arning / Teddy Sandoval, a gay Mexican American artist who died of AIDS in 1995, made such art copiously. “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art” at El Museo Del Barrio offers mostly small-scale Xerox punk zines, erotic magazine illustrations, album covers, decorative ceramics, and minuscule works on paper. It is an outstanding show. Its overflowing curatorial style, bringing in a dozen kindred artists, is a poignant reminder that artists’ trajectories are inseparable from their economic and social contexts.
Tag: Brooklyn Museum
March museum openings
At artnet, a roundup of exhibitions opening in March includes Directions — Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Color […]
Ghada Amer’s threaded paintings in Brooklyn
While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia […]
Ofili shows us the long journey, the big picture
“Chris Ofili,” David Zwirner, New York, NY. Through November 3. This is Ofili’s first NY solo show since The Holy Virgin Mary came to the […]























