Curatorial Lyricism: “Perfect Likeness” at the Hammer
The Hammer’s current photography exhibition looks at developments in portraiture in the past 40 years.
Lightning Bolt: A Realization of Clyfford Still
How we recognize an artist’s greatness can come slowly over decades, or in a flash.
Marx, Africa and the Serene Republic: A Dispatch from Venice
The first of artcritical’s takes this summer on the Venice Biennale
Bright Matter: Shinique Smith in Boston
A long-run show at the Museum of Fine Arts and a downtown mural
Always a Painter: Lawrence Carroll in Bologna
“Ghost House” was at Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Dragon Kite Man of Alcatraz: Ai Weiwei @Large
exhibition at the former island prison on view through April 26
Dallas in Wonderland: Chuck and George at CentralTrak
A group show of portraits of the artists by their friends, creates a maximalist collaborative installation in Dallas.
Sculpture and Painting on the Line: Analia Saban at Sprüth Magers
Dispatch from London Analia Saban: Interiors at Sprüth Magers February 27 to March 28, 2015 7A Grafton Street London, +44 20 7408 1613 The tradition of paint on canvas can act as a provocation to contemporary artists, who may do without either the liquid (e.g. Binky Palermo’s cloth) or the ground (e.g. Lynda Benglis’s pours). The Los … Continued
Show and Tell: John Currin at Gagosian Beverly Hills
The realist painter eschews explicit sex in a new solo show, but refers backwards to earlier tropes of subordination.
By This River: Greg Lindquist Paints Against Coal-Ash Pollution
An ongoing installation in Wilmington, NC, uses art to call attention to the devastation of environmental despoilation.