Archive - Victor Liu . Art

Clarity in political art is difficult to pull off, if the artwork aims to be more than a poster or bumper sticker. Abdulnasser Gharem attains a…

Sep 18

Two immediate modes of appreciation hit me when looking at Charles Ray’s work. The first is the oddball humor. Plenty in this show. Family Romance is a…

Aug 6

The paintings, all similar in format, of ‘characters’, centered within their frames, portrayed from waist up or more closely on the head, hang in one…

Jul 14

These were taken on a recent visit to the Met in New York. There’s a surprising naturalism to the features and postures in these gods and demigods…

Jul 10

Spider-Man: No Way Home challenges the hegemony of the single Spider-Man narrative which pervades our received notions of the superhero universe. In…

Jul 10

This is Victor Liu . Art, a substack with essays, reviews, enthusiasms.

Jul 9

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