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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 ...

Denyse Thomasos, Lollipop Nation 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 54 inches. Courtesy Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Denyse Thomasos: The Divide at Lennon, Weinberg

Thomasos’s vigorously contemporary abstraction is constructed upon imaginary metropolitan grids in which subterranean cages rise to skyscraper scale and architectural renderings blur into infinite space.

Sylvia Sleigh, Chelsea Garden 1967. Oil on canvas, 57 x 50 inches. Courtesy I-20 Gallery
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 Gallery

Sleigh took a proto-feminist approach to spatial representation that was, and sometimes still is, confused with a naïve technique.

Ghada Amer, Painting to Trini’s 2006. Acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas, 78 x 63 inches. Private collection, New York
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

In Stitches at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery

In Stitches surveys artists from very different backgrounds who are united by the medium of stitching, broadly defined.

Liu Ye, Banned Book 2 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 31-1/2 x 39-3/8 inches/ 80 x 100 cm. Private Collection, Courtesy Sperone Westwater Gallery.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Liu Ye: Leave Me in the Dark at Sperone Westwater Gallery

November 7 – December 19, 2009 415 West 13 Street, between 9th Avenue and Washington Street New York City, 212 999 7337 While many of the most lucrative sales in auctions devoted to Chinese contemporary art have gone to large-scale expressionist-style painting, Liu Ye offers a subtle counterpoint as if to suggest that not all … Continued

Craig Manister, Figures and Houses with Reflections 2009, Oil on linen, 2" x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.
Monday, November 30th, 2009

Craig Manister at the Painting Center

The eye of the viewer zig-zags in space from overlapping plane to plane, neoclassic style.

Wolfgang Laib, Installation view: Frieze of Life October 30 - December 5, 2009 Photo by Jason Wyche. Copyright the Artist, Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Wolfgang Laib: Frieze of Life at Sean Kelly Gallery

Laib sees his art as having a political dimension, in the sense that the production of cultural artifacts change people and institutions.

Pat Steir, Self-Portrait: Reprise 1987-2009. Wall Drawing, ink and chalk. Photo by Christopher Burke , Courtesy The New York Studio School
Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Pat Steir: Self-Portrait: Reprise 1987-2009 at the New York Studio School

Taking subjects from the raw materials for old master art, Steir transforms them in accord with her very contemporary sensibility.

Anish Kapoor, Memory 2008. Cor-Ten steel, 47 x 29 x 15 feet (approximate). Installation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Anish Kapoor’s “Memory”: A Tale of Two Cities

October 21, 2009—March 28, 2010 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York City 212-423-3500 Anish Kapoor’s Memory, a 24-ton metallic blimp measuring approximately 47 x 29 x 15 feet overall, is imposing at a number of levels.  It requires the viewer to use his/her own memory to create an image … Continued

Jack Pierson, Her Ancient Solitary Reign, 2009. Metal, wood and plastic, 109 x 129 x 4-3/4 inches. Cover NOVEMBER 2009: ABSTRACT #10, 2008. Metal and paint, 43 x 68 x 48 inches. Courtesy Cheim & Read.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Jack Pierson: Abstracts at Cheim & Read

Jack Pierson at Cheim & Read

Dan Christensen, Dark Tulip 1970. Enamel and acrylic on canvas , 71 x 130 inches. Courtesy of Spanierman Modern
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Dan Christensen (1942-2007): The Plaid Paintings at Spanierman Modern

Facture is neither painterly nor hard-edged geometric, but in between–straight edges that nonetheless exude life.