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THE REVIEW PANEL at the NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM, Friday, February 26 at 6.45 pm
Carly Berwick, Michèle Cone and Joachim Pissarro
join David Cohen to discuss
El Anatsui at Jack Shainman, Damien Hirst at Gagosian, Yvonne Jacquette at DC Moore and Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim

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.  See articles for image credits; some cover images are details

PODCASTS, BOOKS, FEATURES

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

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

Podcast posted 1/29/2010
WHAT ART BOOKS MEAN TO ARTISTS
by Alex Katz, in conversation with David Cohen

Alex Katz signing a monograph about his work for Serena Bocchino at artcritical's holiday season party, Phaidon Store, New York, December 17, 2009

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”

Podcast posted 1/7/2010
THE NOVEMBER 2009 REVIEW PANEL


Ruby Sterling

Leslie Camhi, Barry Schwabsky and Katy Siegel joining David Cohen at the National Academy to review exhibitions of Tracey Emin, Sterling Ruby, David Hockney and Sharon Horvath

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

JOAN BOYKOFF BARON & REUBEN M. BARON on West Coast Minimalism in Four New York Galleries, including Primary Atmospheres at David Zwirner

installation shot, David Zwirner Gallery

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 2/4//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.

posted 1/21/2010 DREW LOWENSTEIN on Morphological Mutiny: Steve DiBenedetto, James Siena, Alexander Ross at David Nolan Gallery
	Dibenedetto, Siena and Ross have defined an architectural endoskeleton within the body of the biomorph

posted 1/29/2010 EMILY WARNER on Anthony McCall at Sean Kelly
	Your movements, and the movements of others in the room, are constantly causing surprising interruptions and additions in the light forms cast against the wall.

posted 1/7/2010 ABBE SCHRIBER on 1969 at PS1
	Throughout the show we are taken on a journey through the predominant narrative of 1960s art history, as told by the institution that has dictated modern art as we know it

posted 1/6/2010 ROBERT C. MORGAN on Gabriel Orozco at the Museum of Modern Art
	This first major museum retrospective of Mexican Gabriel Orozco has been viewed as controversial, and not entirely for reasons of taste.

posted 1/11/2010 ERIC GELBER on Elia Alba at Black & White Gallery
	Shrouding the armature with photo-tattooed fabric tilts two-dimensional surfaces towards the third dimension, but there is constant flickering or vacillation between the two kinds of space

posted 1/22/2010 PIRI HALASZ on White Winter at Tria
	Even in less jovial days of January, whiteness continues to command powerful associations

posted 1/4/2010 GREG LINDQUIST on Andrew Moore at Yancey Richardson
	Moore's subject is the transformative relationship of abandoned architecture to the natural elements, and, through time, its reclamation by the same.

posted 1/3/2010 JOAN WALTEMATH on Ree Morton at the Drawing Center
	There is a subtext running through much of Morton’s works that laments the death of the soul in the things of the world around her

 

 

PIC OF THE WEEK

FRANK BOWLING

Thank You Graham Mileson, 1987
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 27-1/2 inches.

on view at Anita Shapolsky Gallery and Art Foundation, 152 East 65th Street on the Upper East Side, as part of the exhibition, African American Abstract Masters, curated by Dr. Mary Anne Rose and presented in celebration of Black History month. The exhibition also includes works of Betty Blayton,  Ed Clark, Herbert Gentry, Bill Hutson, Sam Middleton, Joe Overstreet, Thomas Sills, Merton Simpson and Frank Wimberley.  The poster for the exhibition poses two blunt and provocative questions: Do you know these people?  Why not? Through April 24.

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