Austin: The Texas Biennial
While the Texas Biennial has some kinks to be ironed out, ALISON HEARST reports, working together to increase the dialogue and push Texas art forward is what Austin does well.
Sculpture Key West 2009
At Sculpture Key West, the artists had only a few days – working in the heat, wind and rain – to execute their pieces. The drama inherent to such a logistically challenging process is palpable in the final result., CHRISTINA KEE discovered
San Antonio, Texas: Marcia Gygli King: forty years
Visiting San Antonio, Texas for Marcia Gygli King’s mutli-venue retrospective, ALISON HEARST discovered a robust art community of involved participants and high-caliber work.
Figures du corps – une leçon d’anatomie aux Beaux-arts at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
21 october 2008 – 4 january 2009 Galeries du quai 13, quai Malaquais, 75506 Paris Telephone: 01 47 03 50 00 Figures du corps was a rare insight into the archive of one of the most significant art schools in the world. The anatomy collection of École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris is an … Continued
Bridget Riley and Peter Doig at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris
In his first dispatch from Paris, Mick Finch ponders simultaneous shows of two artists, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig, both active in Britain but from different generations, whose contrastive relations to Post-Impressionism proved instructive.
NOTES FROM… North Carolina
In the first of a new series of dispatches from around the US and the world by regular contributors, GREG LINDQUIST charts developments in his native North Carolina
Julian Hoeber: All That is Solid Melts into Air at Blum & Poe
Collectively, these sculptures look like death masks cast from Aztec sacrifices. Each embodies the magical absurd-beyond-belief-because-it’s-so-true realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily (as she is called) moved from making batik to painting with acrylic polymer on canvas at the age of 78 and in the next eight years produced around three thousand paintings. Their impact, both as an emotionally communicative experience and in terms of a painting intelligence, is staggering.
Xiong Wenyu: Ten Years of Moving Rainbow
As an environmental activist, Xiong has created a process-oriented art whose dimensions are quite literally heavenly as well as humanist.
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern
His London retrospective, organized by Nicholas Serota