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 ...

Friday, July 24th, 2015

Curatorial Lyricism: “Perfect Likeness” at the Hammer

The Hammer’s current photography exhibition looks at developments in portraiture in the past 40 years.

Clyfford Still, PH-401, 1957. Oil on canvas, 113 x 155 inches. Courtesy of the Clyfford Still Art Museum. © City and County of Denver.
Thursday, June 25th, 2015

Lightning Bolt: A Realization of Clyfford Still

How we recognize an artist’s greatness can come slowly over decades, or in a flash.

works by Adrian Ghenie on view at the Romanian Pavilion, Terry Adkins, Darkwater Record, 2003, on view at - la Biennale di Venezia, All the World’s Futures, 2015
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

Marx, Africa and the Serene Republic: A Dispatch from Venice

The first of artcritical’s takes this summer on the Venice Biennale

Shinique Smith, Through Native Streets, 2011. Ink, acrylic, fabric and paper collage, and found objects on canvas over panel, 60 x 48 x 6 inches. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai. Photo: Adam Reich
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Bright Matter: Shinique Smith in Boston

A long-run show at the Museum of Fine Arts and a downtown mural

Monday, April 20th, 2015

Always a Painter: Lawrence Carroll in Bologna

“Ghost House” was at Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna

Ai Wei Wei, Trace, 2014. Installation view: New Industries Building, Alcatraz. Courtesy of the For-Site Foundation. Photo: Jan Stürmann
Monday, April 6th, 2015

Dragon Kite Man of Alcatraz: Ai Weiwei @Large

exhibition at the former island prison on view through April 26

Saturday, April 4th, 2015

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.

Analia Saban, Fireplace, 2015. Machine rendered acrylic paint on linen, 142.2 x 116.8 x 3.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Spru?th Magers.
Monday, March 30th, 2015

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

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

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.

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

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.