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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 ...

Monday, September 22nd, 2014

Our Secret: Hidden Master Painter Paul Pagk

The masterful and little-known abstractionist has three concurrent shows on two continents.

Stanley Lewis, Winslow Park, Westport, 2010-2014. Oil on canvas, 21-1/4 x 35-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Sunday, September 21st, 2014

One-Two Punch: Stanley Lewis at Betty Cuningham

A crazy-quilt meditation on what painting can be.

Saturday, September 20th, 2014

Looming Tower: Monika Sosnowska at Hauser & Wirth

The artist’s enormous installation at raises questions about how architecture relates to history.

Jeff Koons, Play Doh, 1994-2014. © Jeff Koons
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

From Popeye to Play-Doh: The Psychology of Jeff Koons

The key to Koons is his narcissism

Friday, September 5th, 2014

Light Up Gold: The Work of Rafael Wardi

A legend in his own country, the Finnish painter expresses an almost greedy desire for light and color.

Monday, August 25th, 2014

A Dispatch from “Manifesta 10”

David Carrier reports on the politics and curatorial gambits of “Manifesta 10,” now on view in St. Petersburg.

Lygia Clark, Clark’s proposition Diálogo de mãos ("Dialogue of hands," 1966), in use probably by Clark and Hélio Oiticica. The object is made of elastic. Courtesy Associação Cultural “O Mundo de Lygia Clark,” Rio de Janeiro.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Offline: Lygia Clark and the Original Social Media

This ambitious retrospective of Clark’s work is one of the first major exhibitions of her work outside of Brazil.

Friday, August 15th, 2014

The Cloud Rises: Vasily Kandinsky Before Abstraction

“This is the moment where Kandinsky’s blues, his reds, his yellows, are becoming nouns, objects, substances in their own right.”

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

The Smokey Life: Ohad Meromi at Nathalie Karg

Ohad Meromi carries the proletarian banner into Nathalie Karg Gallery.

Thursday, August 7th, 2014

Burning Inside: Passion, Politics, and Disruption at Paul Kasmin

Arson as a kind of avant-garde, reorganizing our experience of the exhibition space.