Happy Hunting: Michael Bell-Smith at Foxy Production
Who is the Elmer Fudd of Post-Internet art?
Social Collaboration in the Fifth Borough: William Corwin and Neil Greenberg at Staten Island Arts
Show remembers the borough’s past and imagines possible futures
Robert Gober Special: Dennis Kardon, Steve Locke and Lee Ann Norman
at MoMA through January 18
The Body Manifest: Steve Locke on Robert Gober
Steve Locke discusses Gober’s use of formal and conceptual metaphor to visualize bodily suffering.
Nixed Metaphors: Lee Ann Norman on Robert Gober
Norman addresses the contradictions and occlusions of Gober’s representations of sex and race.
Pictorial Baggage: Dennis Kardon on Robert Gober
Dennis Kardon unpacks the cultural contexts of Gober and his personal history.
Clusterfunk: Six Solo Shows in Two Galleries
Two galleries cluster three solo shows each, a less-than-ideal way to show interesting work by six artists.
Diagrams Intuited: Bettina Blohm at Marc Straus
An abstract painter with drawing roots in the landscape
The Marathon That Keeps On Running
Last weekend’s marathon seems to be exerting an unexpected influence on the world of art, or at least of artcritical. Endurance-testing art projects (hopefully with resulting exhilaration) are a common denominator in two of the exhibitions selected for the next installment of The Review Panel. On November 21 Sarah Douglas, Edward Epstein and Lance Esplund … Continued
Democratic Art: Print Week Descends Upon New York
IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory, E/AB at Art Beam Building, Chelsea