Bendix Harms at Anton Kern Gallery, Richard Bosman at Elizabeth Harris, Carroll Dunham at Gladstone Gallery
“Bendix Harms” at Anton Kern Gallery until December 4 (532 W. 20th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-367-9663) “Richard Bosman” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery until November 13 (529 W. 20th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-463-9666) “Carroll Dunham” at Gladstone Gallery until December 4 (515 W. 24th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh, 212-206-9300 … Continued
Joan Snyder
Joan Snyder: Work on Paper: 1970s and Recent Alexandre Gallery 41 East 57th Street, 212-755-2828 Joan Snyder: Women Make Lists Betty Cuningham Gallery 541 West 25 Street, 212-242-2772 A version of this article was first published at The New York SUN, November 18, 2004 If you were just a tyke in the 70s, you missed … Continued
Terry Winters 1981-1986
Matthew Marks Gallery 523 West 24 Street New York NY 10011 212-243-0200 November 6 to December 24, 2004 Strangely there are currently a number of shows around town of 80’s art. One of the best is Matthew Marks show of Terry Winters paintings and drawings from 1981 to 1986. These are some of the earliest … Continued
Fermin Rocker 1907-2004
A version of this obituary was published in the London Independent on October 20, 2004 Fermin Rocker himself had recognized that his current show at the Chambers Gallery in London would be his last. For some time he had been tired. His eyes were not as good as they were, and walking the few yards to … Continued
The New MoMA: a roundtable moderated by Aaron Yassin with Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Deven Golden, Susan Jennings and Christian Viveros-Faune
The place of contemporary art in New York City is changing. With the scheduled reopening this November of the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street, the $858 million project will create 125,000 square feet of new and renovated gallery space, and a new era for the museum will begin. It will unquestionably be an … Continued
Innovator, Activist, Healer: The Art of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis at the Jewish Museum
Albert York and Giorgio Morandi
Albert York: Paintings; A Loan Exhibition Davis and Langdale Company 231 East 60th Street New York 212 838 0333 October 9 – November 13, 2004 Giorgio Morandi: Paintings, 1950-1964” at Lucas Schoormans Gallery 508 West 26th Street, Suite 11B 212 243 3159 December 4, 2004 A version of these reviews was first published in The … Continued
October 2004: Ken Johnson, Maureen Mullarkey, and Jerry Saltz with moderator David Cohen
Justine Kurland at Gorney, Bravin and Lee, Richard Deacon at Marian Goodman, Rackstraw Downes at Betty Cuningham and Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine
Jonas Mekas: “From Brooklyn, with Love” (with Martha Colburn and Auguste Varkalis)
Sideshow Gallery 319 Bedford Avenue Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 718 486 8180 In his show “From Brooklyn With Love,” Jonas Mekas exhibits films and stills in which the world is recorded without innuendo or guile. As in all his work known to me, Mekas’ companions and surroundings reveal themselves as one assumes they were encountered … Continued
Chris Martin
Sideshow 319 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211 September 17 – October 24, 2005 Art belongs to everyone. So Chris Martin has it at his current show at Sideshow. Or should I say around Sideshow. The first thing one notices on the approach is one of Martin’s signature abstractions looming large in black and red on the … Continued