criticismExhibitions
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The American artist Kara Walker poses questions about slavery’s history and legacy with a major UK commission. ...
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
The work of earlier artists can be found in scenes from this expat Russian painter’s adolescence. ...
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
A derangement of the senses is arrived at via multifarious stimuli ...

Friday, March 25th, 2016

Law as Symbol: Taryn Simon at Gagosian

The beautification of legal and economic power is pinned down and studied.

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

America is Hard to See: David Hammons at Mnuchin

A retrospective of 50 years’ work by the cantankerous, teasing, cutting, and loving sculptor.

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

Momentous: Shows by Catherine Murphy and Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Two painters delicately depict mundane instants, beautifully.

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

Smoke, Clouds, Breath: Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman

An exhibition of new photographic and video work by the YBA.

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

Erogenous Zone: Aida Ruilova’s Erotic “Palace”

The artist’s iconic, sensuous new work borrows from charged 1970s film imagery.

Friday, March 11th, 2016

Built Differently: Mernet Larsen’s Strange Constructions

The artist makes strange use of perspective, planes, and other building blocks of composition and narrative.

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

BMPT at Hunter College: All There Is To It

A retrospective of the influential abstract painting group.

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

Really Killer: Anna Ostoya’s Judith

A fractured re-examination of an infamous Renaissance execution image.

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

Calisthenic Abstraction: Four Decades of David Row

Restless intelligence in evidence at Loretta Howard Gallery

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

“Wanting to be Art”: Buy, Sell and Desire in the Paintings of Walter Robinson

His retrospective, at Moore College, Philadelphia, runs through March 12