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THE REVIEW PANEL at the NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM, Friday, March 26 at 6.45 pm
Michelle Kuo, Mark Stevens and David Levi-Strauss
join David Cohen to discuss
Mike Nelson at 303 Gallery, Joan Jonas at Yvon Lambert, Anya Kielar at Rachel Uffner Gallery and Robert Ryman at PaceWildenstein

Publisher & Editor David Cohen Associate Publisher Laurie Frick News Editor Eric Gelber Contributing Editors Reuben Baron, Joan Boykoff Baron,
Bill Berkson (poetry), David Carrier, Joe Fyfe, Deborah Garwood, Jonathan Goodman, Greg Lindquist
Editorial Assistants Amelia Norvell, Karley Klopfenstein, Candace C. Mills.  See articles for image credits; some cover images are details

PODCASTS, BOOKS, FEATURES

podcast posted 2/20//2010
THE JANUARY 2010 REVIEW PANEL

Frances Barth

Mario Naves, Joan Waltemath and John Yau join David Cohen to discuss Frances Barth, Marlo Pascual, Susannah Phillips and Stanley Whitney

posted 2/6//2010
Dispatches: Report from Harare
by VALERIE KABOV

In a Catch-22, artists cannot sell their work, but they also cannot afford to “waste” materials on work that is not for sale.

Book Review posted 2/4/2010
Patrick Ireland/Brian O'Doherty: Between Categories, reviewed by David Carrier

“His ambition,” Moore-McCann concludes, “is nothing less than a transformation of thinking, looking beyond material objects to underlying systems of belief”

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

THE INDEPENDENT ART FAIR



Ricci Albenda’s painting, No Reason to Say No, 2009, with Andrew Kreps Gallery at the Independent Art Fair, where JOHN ZINSSER wraps up his photo journal of the March 2010 New York art fairs

DAVID BRODY on Phillip Taaffe at Gagosian
	Taaffe’s pure decorativeness nevertheless embraces, almost as fetish, the visible husks of signs

posted 2/26//2010 DAVID CARRIER on Brian Alfred at Haunch of Venison
	Alfred’s note perfect exhibition strips his media images of their usual affect to present the soothing vision of an extreme aesthete

posted 2/21//2010 BRUCE HODGES on Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at the Drawing Center
	Storms of tiny lines and colored boxes remain powerful statements on their own, even if they were to be completely disconnected from the music they ultimately represent

posted 2/19//2010 JONATHAN GOODMAN on David Reed at Peter Blum (Soho)
	The drawings are filled with information and speculation

posted 2/24//2010 DAVID BRODY on Charles Steffen at Andrew Edlin
	Stylistic textures are revealed to be unselfconscious tics without which Steffen cannot construct flesh

posted 2/18//2010 STEPHEN MAINE on Paul Corio at 210 Gallery
	Corio brings a hard-earned sense of humor and mischief to abstraction rooted in the phenomenology of optical sensation, a branch of contemporary art not exactly known for big laughs.

posted 2/18//2010 JAMES GARDNER on Pablo Bronstein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Bronstein appears to want to draw classical buildings as though he were at work in a perpetual ancien regime.

posted 2/19//2010 ABBE SCHRIBER on Diane Arbus and William Eggleston at Cheim & Read
	Eggleston and Arbus promoted the shared view that no subject is uninteresting when captured a compelling way.

posted 2/7//2010 CHRISTINA KEE on Josh Smith at Deitch Studios
	The best works are vibrant and fun, and show the chops of a painter who takes delight in straightforward, rambunctious picture making.

posted 2/7//2010 ILKA SCOBIE on Man Ray at the Jewish Museum
	Transgressive, experimental, fiercely individualistic, Man Ray evaded any categories not of his own creation.

posted 2/7//2010 ROBERT C. MORGAN on Zhang Huan at PaceWildenstein
	With Zhang's Rulai one senses the conflicting elements of life and death within the gray ash

posted 2/5//2010 KARLEY KLOPFENSTEIN on Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists at James Cohan Gallery
	Among thirteen tapestries commissioned from contemporary artists, the most interesting are those in which the medium adds a level of meaning to the image

posted 2/3//2010 JOAN BOYKOFF BARON & REUBEN M. BARON on West Coast Minimalism in Four New York Galleries, including Primary Atmospheres at David Zwirner
	We still have much to learn about California’s cool recasting of New York’s cold Minimalism, but these shows provide a good place to start.

posted 2/4//2010 DEVEN GOLDEN on Victor Pesce and William Carroll at Elizabeth Harris
	Pesce freeze’s the moment, Carroll celebrates transience, and together they create a deeply meaningful and thoughtful dialogue.

posted 2/2//2010 KAREN GOVER on Erick Johnson at Heskin Contemporary
	Once the complexity of the paintings’ under-layers have revealed themselves, we are in a position to appreciate the way in which these paintings offer up to us a visual metaphor of their own making.

posted 2/7//2010 JONATHAN GOODMAN on Linda Cross at Vassar College and the Beacon Institute
	She doesn’t paint so much as build her pictures…they seem to convey the reality of water stopped up with manmade detritus.

 

 

NEWSDESK

Artists and War Symposium at Swarthmore... Parody and Performance forum at MIT...Bushwick's SITE Fest ... Williamsburg's Jack the Pelican to close.

Tribute to Clare Weiss, determined and enterprising champion of art in public places

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