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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 ...

Bill Beckley, Station 1, 2002. Cibachrome photograph, 81 x 44 inches. Courtesy of Tony Sharfrazi Gallery
Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Silently Still Among Us: The beauty of Bill Beckley

Bill Beckley at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, May 15 to July 30, 2010

Ross Neher, Faro, 2006. Oil on canvas, 31-1/2 x 33-1/4 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Friday, July 2nd, 2010

A Revealing Illusionist: Renaissance-inspired Ross Neher’s geometric abstraction

Ross Neher: Sanctuary at 210 Gallery, South Brooklyn

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Refined Nutt: A Jim Nutt retrospective at Nolan

Jim Nutt: “Trim” and Other Works: 1967 – 2010 at David Nolan Gallery

installation shot of Heather Rowe: Trouble Everyday at D’Amelio Terras, May 8 - June 19, 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

The mirror stage: Heather Rowe’s latest installation

Heather Rowe: Trouble Everyday at D’Amelio Terras

Anne Truitt, Gloucester, 1963. Acrylic on wood, 73-1/2 x 72 x 13 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Monday, June 21st, 2010

Beauty en bloc: Anne Truitt finds her form at Matthew Marks

Anne Truitt: Sculpture 1962-2004 at Matthew Marks Gallery

Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 158 x 110 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with funds provided by Laura R. Burrows-Jackson, Baltimore; and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Mitro Hood
Monday, June 21st, 2010

Mysterious to the End: Andy Warhol’s late work

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum.

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Contrapuntal Infinitudes: Il Lee at Art Projects International

For some 30 years Il Lee has exclusively used, and abused, ballpoint pens.

Hearne Pardee, Hearne Pardee, Birch Lane, 2010. Acrylic on Paper, 12 X 19 inches. Courtesy Bowery Gallery
Friday, June 18th, 2010

Hearne Pardee at Bowery Gallery

This image was featured in the May 2010 listings

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Dawn Clements at The Boiler (Pierogi)

One senses that drawing is how Clements comes to grips with her surroundings, whether those stimuli are constructed, imagined or discovered.

Michael Goldberg, Sam Wells, 1962. Oil on canvas, 99-3/4 x 88-3/4inches. Courtesy Knoedler & Company
Friday, June 4th, 2010

Michael Goldberg at Knoedler & Company

Given their extraordinary force and paradoxical restraint, these paintings represent the kind of psychic change that distinguishes the fifties from the sixties.