John Rapko



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Friday, April 14th, 2017

Narrowing the Field: The Fate of Genius in the Age of the Readymade

A review of Art in the Making by Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson

Paul Kos, Aspen, 2009. Video projection on paint on canvas. 6 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim
Monday, August 29th, 2011

Quasi Una Fantasia: A Summer Trio From San Francisco

Paul Kos and Jim Melchert at Paule Anglim, Shahzia Sikander at the Art Institute

Edouard Manet, The Railway (The Gare Saint-Lazare), 1873. Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W Havemeyer.
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

“Enchantment and Malaise”: Michel Foucault on Manet

Publication of a 1971 lecture in Tunis, reissued in time for the recent exhibition in Paris

Michael Craig-Martin, An Oak Tree, 1973. Glass, water, shelf and printed text, dimensions vary. Private Collection
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The Arts Died with Dada: Roy Harris and the Great Debate About Art

In depth review of the semiotician’s pointed pamphlet on the end of art criticism

Diana Thater, RARE 2008. 16 LCD monitors, DVD player, DVD, and existing architecture, 204 x 264 inches. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York. All photographs by Pablo Mason.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet at the Berkeley Art Museum

By design, the show is a revealing jumble, expressing something of what it has come to mean to respond to a place (or site, region, niche), and something of what it can no longer mean.