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 ...

Brian Banda, Empty Promises, 2011. Acrylic on cardboard. photo by Silver Simphor
Monday, August 15th, 2011

Paris-Harare: Focus on Inner Vision

Artists from Harare’s First Floor Gallery were on view at Pavé D’Orsay in Paris this Spring

Tejal Shah, You Too Can Touch the Moon (from the Hijra Fantasy series), 2006. Numbered photograph on archival paper, 147 x 96.5 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste et Project 88, Bombay
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Passage to Postmodernity: Paris-Delhi-Bombay

at the Centre Pompidou through September 19

Horst Ademeit: untitled mixed media / polaroid, 11 x 9 cm Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Mystique and conspiracy: The Polaroids of Horst Ademeit

An oeuvre of several thousand photographs and hundreds of pages of text.

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

What are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Many of Them?

artcritical is deeply saddened by the passing of its friend and collaborator, Bill Berkson

David Goldblatt, Here, in 2007, Ellen Pakkies strangled her son Abie. Lavender Hill, Cape Town. 12 September 2010. Silver gelatin print on fibre based paper, 40 x 50 cm. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

The Weight of Narrative: Photographs of David Goldblatt

His exhibition at Johannesburg’s Market Photo Workshop,  founded under Apartheid

Members of the Louisville arts community protest the actions of Fund for the Arts CEO Allan Cowen, Louisville, Kentucky, March 11, 2011. Courtesy of Travis K. Kircher / WDRB 41 News
Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Art is for Everyone: Caravaggio and Street Protests in Louisville, Kentucky

Channeling their own brand of the Arab Spring, arts community protests unseat the 30 year head of the city’s arts trust; plus an exhibition of Caravaggio…

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Craft Becomes a Bad Word: Indian Folk Art in the Contemporary Wilderness

In three recent exhibitions, India’s folk art searches for context.

Installation view: BLACK SWAN Regen Projects, Los Angeles February 25th – April 16, 2011
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Swanning Around Ahead of the Oscars: Three Shows in LA

Clare Rojas at Prism, Sam Durant at Blum & Poe and Black Swan at Regan Projects

William Kentridge Interviews Himself: two stills from William Kentridge, Drawing Lesson 47 (Interview for New York Studio School), 2010. Video, 4'48". YouTube.
Friday, April 22nd, 2011

The Pleasures of the Pursuit: Talks by William Kentridge and Philip Pearlstein in Jerusalem

The artists gave lectures at the Jerusalem Studio School and the Israel Museum

Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 2008. Oil on Linen, Toner on Silk, detail. Detail. Courtesy of the Artists.
Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Now or Nothing: Contemporary Art and the Queen City

Twenty years on from the Mapplethorpe case, Cincinnati debuts a Keith Haring retrospective.