A Passionate Visual Idiom: Carmen Herrera at the Whitney
A segment of her long career leaves a critic hungry for more
Terrestrial Studio: Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King
Sculpture made for the outdoors, on view through November
Landscape of the Self: Adele Tutter on Philip Johnson’s Glass House
Dream House. An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House by Adele Tutter
Speculative Modernism: Robert Irwin at the Hirshhorn
Can Modernism’s history be seen through the lens of Irwin’s work?
FRIEZE WEEK PICK OF THE DAY: Marianne Vitale at Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin at Frieze
A “common crossing” is a ubiquitous railroad switch. Laid down horizontally, inserted in the railroad tracks, these ‘frogs’ guide trains crossing from one line to the next. Just as Duchamp transfigured an ordinary men’s urinal into an artwork, by rotating Fountain ninety degree out of the everyday world, so by revolving her ‘frogs’ into a vertical…
Perceptual Inventory: A New Anthology by Barry Schwabsky
The poet-critic’s recent writing for The Nation is collected by Verso.
Poet, Printer, Prankster: Marcel Broodthaers in Retrospect
The late artist is the subject of four simultaneous exhibitions, including a MoMA retrospective.
In the Beginning was the Image: Julian Bell and Archie Rand Paint the Bible
“What’s the right visual style for presenting Christian or Jewish texts? “
An Awesome Pursuit of Variety: Martha Diamond’s Little Pictures
A show of recent paintings was her first at Alexandre Gallery
Secret World: The Art of Martin Wong
The East Village artist, who died in 1999, gets a retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
