criticismDispatches
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Selected works by Charles Long, installation shot, Made in L.A. 2018. Courtesy of UCLA Hammer Museum. Photo: Brian Forrest
The fourth “Made in L.A.” is at the Hammer through September 2 ...
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Presented by the museum of her work, through September 30 ...
Monday, July 23rd, 2018
The capital of Western New York is ripe for artists looking for a place to hang their hats ...

Thornton Dial, Untitled, c. 2003. Mixed Media, 48 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Allegra Laviola Gallery
Saturday, April 7th, 2012

From Rags to… Found Boots, Gloves and Soda Cans: The Richness of Thornton Dial

This dispatch from New Orleans in 2011 offered as a tribute to the artist who died recently

Shephard Fairey, Obey, 2012. Mural, Dallas Contemporary building, Glass Street, Dallas, Tx. Photo: Colleen McInerney0
Monday, March 26th, 2012

Paint the Town Red: Shephard Fairey takes Dallas

Street artist’s murals are bringing new audience to the Dallas Contemporary

Installation view showing early paintings by Carolee Schneemann at Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012 Photo: Chris Brown
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Dreams and Desires from the Middle of Nowhere: Carolee Schneemann in Illinois

Legendary film and performance artist on view at the Krannert Art Museum

Guercino (Francesco Barbieri), Et in Arcadia Ego, 1618-22. Oil on canvas, 82 x 91 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome
Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Working Space 1600: Shows in Rome of Guercino, Caravaggio and their Contemporaries

Reflections on Baroque painting and modernism.

The Merger, Cuban Pocket Knife. Photo: Roslyn Bernstein for artcritical
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Where Artists Are Richer Than Doctors: Report from Havana

The starving artist stereotype is, surprisingly, not the Cuban model

Helen Pashgian, Untitled, 1968-69, cast polyester resin. 8 inches diameter. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Photo by Philipp Scholz Rittermann.
Friday, October 28th, 2011

No Choice But To Trust The Senses: California Light and Space Revisited

“Phenomenal” at  San Diego MoCA prompts rethink of West Coast minimalism

Yang Yong's installation, Lightscape, on view at the 2011 Guangzhou Triennial
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Forums in Motion: The Guangzhou Triennial

Conference helps put prosperous city on par with more sophisticated Chinese centers

Ellen Lanyon, Majolica Tea, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Courtesy of Valerie Carberry Gallery
Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Keeping Your Balance in the Windy City: Report from Chicago

Philip Pearlstein and Ellen Lanyon at Carberry, Ed Valentine at Warren, Matthew Woodward, Amy Casey

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

Lois Dodd, Elliott's Place, 1993. Oil on panel, 11-3/4 x 19 inches. Courtesy of Caldbeck Gallery
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Interesting for No Good Reason: Lois Dodd in Maine

A 40 year survey of real and imagined scenes at the Calbeck Gallery, Rockland, this summer