Posts from June, 2014

Wood, Light and Steel from Ash: Xu Bing’s Phoenixes


Xu Bing’s interest in metamorphosis takes form as two colossal phoenixes.


“A Dialogue with Nature” at the Morgan Library


“A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany” at the Morgan Library.


Lynda Benglis at artcritical


“HUBS” is a new category on artists and subjects discussed multiple times at artcritical


Kristan Kennedy at Soloway


“All the paintings have been made, even the embarrassing ones.”


Archive of the Everything, Forever: Camille Henrot at the New Museum


Camille Henrot’s ambitious exhibition displays her woven roles as archivist, anthropologist, artist.


Suspect Artforms: Lee Ann Norman on Photographic Appropriation


Does the use of appropriation in photography show more than it hides?


“They are looking for answers”: Jawad al Malhi at Al-Ma’mal Foundation


Jawad al Malhi’s work documents the lives, struggles and culture of young men in the Middle East.


Punchline in Search of a Comedian: Jayson Musson takes on Nancy


Jayson Musson’s comics-inspired show is at Salon 94 Bowery.


What It Is: Juliet Helmke on Tom Friedman


Tom Friedman plays with viewer expectations, using nothing but two materials.


Radically Conservative: Franklin Einspruch on Susan Vecsey & James Walsh


Susan Vecsey and James Walsh lead the vanguard revival of the Tenth Street abstractionists.