The 2022 edition of the SPRING/BREAK Art Show begs the question: can an art fair predicated on irreverence, spontaneity, and a do-it-yourself aesthetic maintain that level of innovation after ten years?

In addition to showcasing a variety of approaches to color in sculpture, I would argue that there is another undercurrent running through this exhibition. Much of the work either responds to or actively attempts to undermine classical and modern aesthetics' mathematical purity.

The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed is Nyeema Morgan’s solo exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, on view through January 29, 2021. Morgan plays with the slippery quality of text to lead our minds astray.

In James Little’s five abstract canvases in oil and wax exhibited in the marble-clad Modernist lobby of 499 Park Avenue (on view July 20 through December 1, 2020), he explores the nature of contradiction with mathematical determination.

Ecofeminist art practices focus directly on situations affecting life and the body and the conditions in which the body lives, especially regarding the exploitation of women and traditionally oppressed groups. This extraordinary gateway exhibition, precisely yet expansively curated by Monika Fabijanska, is a survey, a retrospective, and an education all in one.

We see the inexplicable as proof of the divine, and so much of our culture revolves around a yearning to discover traces of something out of the ordinary: angelic and ghostly sightings, extraterrestrial visitors, Atlantis, the list stretches on. Mike Ballou’s semi-secret works at the western entrance to Cooper Park in East Williamsburg are a much-needed invocation of the supernatural.