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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 ...

Installation view, "Jayson Musson: Abstract Art Exhibit," courtesy of Salon 94.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

Punchline in Search of a Comedian: Jayson Musson takes on Nancy

Jayson Musson’s comics-inspired show is at Salon 94 Bowery.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

What It Is: Juliet Helmke on Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman plays with viewer expectations, using nothing but two materials.

Saturday, June 21st, 2014

Radically Conservative: Franklin Einspruch on Susan Vecsey & James Walsh

Susan Vecsey and James Walsh lead the vanguard revival of the Tenth Street abstractionists.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

Outside the Box: David Carrier on the Legacy of Shaped Canvases

Two exhibitions chronicle the disparate and sometimes radical uses of shaped canvases since the 1960s.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014

Fuzzy Reception: Michael Berryhill at Kansas

Berryhill’s new punning paintings tease viewers and confound their expectations.

Paul Cézanne, The Buffet, 1887-79. Oil on linen, 65 x 81 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Paul Cézanne: Site/Non-Site

Madrid show applies Robert Smithson’s ideas to Cézanne

Stuart Elster, In Dazzle Blue #2, 2012. Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Junior Projects
Monday, May 26th, 2014

Constructing “Boatness” from the Abstraction of Camouflage: Stuart Elster at Junior Projects

Show references Dazzle campaign of World War I

Shirley Kaneda, Restrained Decadence , 2014. Acrylic and linen on canvas, 64 x 54 inches. Courtesy of Galerie Richard
Saturday, May 10th, 2014

The Painterly and the Linear: Shirley Kaneda and Robert Mangold

Slow abstractionists of contrasting sensibility in overlapping Chelsea shows

Installation shot of the exhibition under review with, from left, Hare with Forks, c.1924, Plucked Goose, c.1933, The Rabbit, c.1924 and Table with Skinned Rabbit, c.1923. Photography by Chris Burke. Images courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014

Sensuous Orgies of Luminous Writhing Paint: Chaim Soutine Still Lifes

At Kasmin Gallery, West 27th Street, through June 14

David Salle, Ghost 10, 1992. Ink on photosensitized linen, 85 x 75 inches. © copyright David Salle, VAGA, NY courtesy of Skarstedt NY
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

Shape Shifters: David Salle Ghost Paintings

on view late last year at Skarstedt on the Upper East Side