May 2015: Christina Kee, Peter Plagens and Roberta Smith with moderator David Cohen
exhibitions of Natalie Frank, Rosy Keyser, C. Michael Norton and Christine Rebet
Naked City: Holly Zausner at Postmasters
The artist’s new video shows the city emptied, but nonetheless full of majesty.
Brian Belott at 247365’s New Location
New paintings and early works, adapted from children.
Flying Aces: Malcolm Morely at Sperone Westwater
The realist painter loosens up with new assemblages of warships and planes.
Eruption: Louise Despont’s Colorful, Vivid Drawings
New drawings at Nicelle Beauchene, with tropical patterns and Art Brut style.
Marx, Africa and the Serene Republic: A Dispatch from Venice
The first of artcritical’s takes this summer on the Venice Biennale
Exposed: Shows by June Leaf and Joan Semmel
Two concurrent exhibitions by women painters, about the body, its love, and labors.
“The sky has entered our senses”: Paintings by Etel Adnan
New work by the poet and painter, reviewed by one of artcritical’s poet-critics.
The Value of Tributes
artcritical.com doesn’t aspire to be the journal of record when it comes to obituaries: we respond as any serious art magazine does when a giant leaves the field, but as in much of our coverage, the choice of artists and art world personalities to whom we pay tribute is determined less by editorial policy than by … Continued