Nation Topics - Fine Art | The Nation

Thomas Hirschhorn’s unmonumental monument to egalitarianism and Antonio Gramsci.

Two photographers focus on the difficulties of putting words to what one sees.

A painter who never lost sight of life’s being perpetually in transition.

In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision.

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.

Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.