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Saturday, November 14th, 2020
This 2014 article on Matt Freedman is offered as tribute to the artist who died recently ...
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Instigator of Williamsburg’s Sideshow Nation, an annual show with hundreds of artists ...
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Despite her range, Hafif was frequently allied with monochrome painters ...

Thursday, December 21st, 2017

Holiday Party at Eric Firestone launches Benefit Show for artcritical’s Redesign Campaign

at Eric Firestone Loft, December 17

John Ashbery, A Dream Of Heroes, 2015. Mixed Media Collage, 15-3/4 X 20-1/2 inches.
Sunday, September 17th, 2017

“One Thing Follows Another”: John Ashbery, Art Critic

He made light of his “violon d’Ingres,” but with Ashbery’s death we lost a great art critic

Spring/Break is the most anarchic and exuberant of the fairs: each room of these administrative offices of the USPS (the space has a David Lynch-like quality, a time-capsule of New Deal-era bureaucracy) has its own organizing principle. Here is artist Megan Liu Kincheloe installing Thing Gap Method in Room 23 featuring works by Sophia Flood, Sascha Ingber, Kelly McCafferty, Sarah Tortora and herself.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017

All Our Blurbs from Art Fair Week, March 2017

Capsule reviews by David Cohen and Roman Kalinovski from the commercial front lines

Martin Naylor, 1944-2016
Sunday, March 5th, 2017

Angry Young Man: Martin Naylor, 1944 to 2016

A maverick British sculptor whose achievements are coming back into perspective

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

The Art Fairs This Week: A Cheat Sheet from the Editors of THE LIST

The Art Show, The Armory Show, NADA, Volta, Independent, Scope, Spring/Break, Clio, Art on Paper, Moving Image…

Thursday, January 26th, 2017

“Thank You, Fuck You”: J20/Occupy Museum at the Whitney

artcritical’s report on the “Speak Out” on Inauguration Day

Siri Berg in her New York Studio, 2011. Photo courtesy of Peter Hionas
Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Color Theory: Siri Berg opens at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center

Siri Berg: In Color, the retrospective of the Swedish-born veteran of hard-edge abstraction curated by Peter Hionas, opens November 17 at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Berg, who is a thriving and active artist now in her mid-90s, will also be the subject of a documentary set to premiere … Continued

Stanley Lewis, Westport Train Station with Figures, 2009. Ink on paper, 13 x 23 inches. The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection. Currently on view in the exhibition, Stanley Lewis: The Way Things Are at the New York Studio School through November 13
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Generosity of Eye: William Louis-Dreyfus, 1932 to 1984

Countless individuals, institutions, and causes lost a remarkable and irreplaceable friend earlier this fall with the passing of collector and philanthropist William Louis-Dreyfus. He literally transformed the lives of artists whose works he amassed. A stalwart campaigner for social justice, he pioneered ways of fusing his twin passions for art and for serving the underprivileged … Continued

John Newman, Blue Ribbon Teardrop, 2008. Wood burl, blown glass, acrylic paint on acqua resin, wood putty, Japanese paper, papier mache, Foamcore, armature wire, string, 14-1/2 x 15-1/2 x 9 inches. The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Generosity of Eye: William Louis-Dreyfus, 1932 to 1984

Countless individuals, institutions, and causes lost a remarkable and irreplaceable friend earlier this fall with his passing

Walter Darby Bannard, Orange Blacksides, 1959. Oil on canvas, 60 x 67-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Berry Campbell
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Modernism isn’t a style, he insisted, it’s a working attitude. Walter Darby Bannard, 1934 to 2016

The artist passed on the eve of a show of new work, at Berry Campbell through November 12