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
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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”
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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
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Taaffe’s pure decorativeness nevertheless embraces, almost as fetish, the visible husks of signs
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DAVID CARRIER on Brian Alfred at Haunch of Venison |
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Alfred’s note perfect exhibition strips his media images of their usual affect to present the soothing vision of an extreme aesthete
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DAVID BRODY on Charles Steffen at Andrew Edlin |
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Stylistic textures are revealed to be unselfconscious tics without which Steffen cannot construct flesh
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STEPHEN MAINE on Paul Corio at 210 Gallery |
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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.
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CHRISTINA KEE on Josh Smith at Deitch Studios |
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The best works are vibrant and fun, and show the chops of a painter who takes delight in straightforward, rambunctious picture making.
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ILKA SCOBIE on Man Ray at the Jewish Museum |
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Transgressive, experimental, fiercely individualistic, Man Ray evaded any categories not of his own creation.
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ROBERT C. MORGAN on Zhang Huan at PaceWildenstein |
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With Zhang's Rulai one senses the conflicting elements of life and death within the gray ash
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KAREN GOVER on Erick Johnson at Heskin Contemporary |
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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.
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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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