Paine manages to steer these leafless “Dendroids,” as he calls them, between the Scylla of transparency and the Charibdis of mechanization.

One of the most interesting aspects is Azami’s negative capability: her technique demonstrates a willingness to expunge the self in favor of a poetic exactitude of description.

In the Teatro la Fenice or the Chiostro Verde of San Giorgio one likes everything a little bit more than one might elsewhere. – Igor Stravinsky, in Stravinsky & Craft,Conversations with Stravinsky From the dais on the grass outside the U.S. Pavilion, at the June 4th press conference for Bruce Nauman’s exhibition, the State Department’s … Continued

A persistence of hard-edged nonobjective painting shows the lineage of modernism hanging on, even if only by the fingernails.

Her aphorisms are generalizations with political intent.

If his ostensible state-of-hibernation may seem a little anti-climactic, it’s a rest he’s earned.

The paintings and sculptures of the eight artists in this group show carry a potency derived from the convergence of man-made networks with ones culled from nature.

The odd juxtaposition of these common objects with an abstract formal language gives the work social dimensions and sensual qualities.

There is a palpable tension evoked in watching the crystalline visage of Nancy Reagan struggle for clarity against the loosey-goosey stained canvas.

The exhibition is a small testament to the efficacies of the late modernist project.