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Bjorn Copeland, Remnant Screen IV, 2013. Courtesy of Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

Failing Better: Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley

“a Bushwick flaneurial revelling in oddball sidewalk finds”

William Kentridge, Whichever Page You Open, 2013. Drawing, India ink on Craggs Universal Technological Dictionary, 1826, 80-3/4 x 82-5/8 inches. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
Monday, October 21st, 2013

Old Forms For New Uses: William Kentridge at Marian Goodman and the Met

“He works with archaic materials using self-imposed limitations”

Installation view: Aldo Tambellini, We Are The Primitives Of A New Era at James Cohan Gallery, 2013. Photographer: Bill Orcutt
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Spooky and Luscious: Aldo Tambellini at James Cohan

Reconstructed environments of pioneering cameraless films prefigure upcoming MoMA screenings

Installation view featuring (on the right) Nine Cosmic CD’s: For The Firespitter (Jayne Cortez), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 45h x 137.5w inches. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
Saturday, October 12th, 2013

Cosmic Put-on: Notes on Jack Whitten

Paintings of the 4th dimension

Anne Truitt, Second Requiem, 1977/1980. Acrylic on wood, 84 x 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Friday, October 11th, 2013

Finding a Place: Anne Truitt from the 1970s at Matthew Marks Gallery

A true independent with a pastoral sense of existing within a landscape

Torbjørn Rødland, The Corner, 2008-13, 55 1/8 x 43 5/16 inches. Courtesy of Algus Greenspon.
Thursday, October 10th, 2013

The New Image: Torbjørn Rødland at Algus Greenspon

A photographer’s serious conceptual tone with a hint of satire

Joanne Ziprin, screen-printed greeting card for Inkweed Art [“Stop doodling! Be my Valentine~”] 4 7?8 x 23 7?8 inches, ca. 1952. Photo credit: Jeffrey Sturges. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Carol Bove’s Uncanny Authorship

A staged meeting of the art object with its other at Maccarone

David Rhodes, Untitled, 2013. Acrylic on raw canvas, 20 x 19 inches. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery
Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Starkness and Range: David Rhodes at Hionas Gallery

As his second solo show opens at the same venue, a review of his 2013 debut there

Gretchen Bender, video still from Total Recall. Courtesy of The Kitchen.
Friday, October 4th, 2013

The Flow of the Pulse: Gretchen Bender at The Kitchen

The future was in the past

Angelina Gualdoni, Opening the Gates, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 47 x 52 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Asya Geisberg Gallery.
Thursday, September 19th, 2013

Oil as Water: POUR at Lesley Heller and Asya Geisberg

Is the act of pouring paint free from the shackles of art history?