Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
An exhibition that follows a fashion designer as she channels the spirit of her times ...

Thomas Bayrle, Mao, 1966. Oil on wood construction and engine, 145 x 148 x 32 cm. Photo: Axel Schneider.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018

Disrupting the System: Thomas Bayrle at the New Museum

Five-decade survey delving culture, politics, economics, infrastructure

Saturday, July 28th, 2018

Ekphrasis: Helene Appel at James Cohan

Her second show with the gallery was on Grand Street this month

Resource: Art curators Emily Tucker, Elisabeth Samuels and (seated) Anna Kaplan at the Hotel Henry with works by Ani Hoover. Courtesy of the Buffalo Spree
Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Is Buffalo the Next Berlin?

The capital of Western New York is ripe for artists looking for a place to hang their hats

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Black is Beautiful: Fred Wilson at Pace

“Afro Kismet” is on view in Chelsea through August 17

Installation shot, "Günter Brus: Unrest after the Storm". Photo: Sophie Thun © Belvedere, Vienna, 2018
Monday, July 16th, 2018

Mit Schlag: Post War Abstraction in Vienna

Martha Jungwirth at the Albertina, Günter Brus at Belvedere 21

Chaim Soutine, Sheep Behind a Fence, c. 1940. Oil on canvas, 10-3/4 x 16-1/4 inches. Private Collection, courtesy of the Jewish Museum. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Friday, July 13th, 2018

“Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented”: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum

Flesh, on view through September 16

Hiraki Sawa (left), Dwelling, 2002. Video, 9:20 minutes; Olafur Eliasson (right), Yellow Double Hung Windows, 1999. Two halogen, 60 watt profle spotlights on tripod with gobos, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artists and 601Artspace. Photo: Jason Mandella
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

“Utopian in Nature”: A group show at 601Artspace

Curated by Jesse Penridge and Harriet Salmon, through July 31

Jill Nathanson, Leitmotif, 2018. Acrylic and polymers with oil on panel, 45 x 27-1/2 inches. © Jill Nathanson. Courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Elucidations: Jill Nathanson at Berry Campbell

“Nathanson’s colors feel harvested from sensations of all that is sunlit”

Saturday, June 23rd, 2018

Are You Comfortable, Now? Jordan Wolfson at David Zwirner

Jordan Wolfson: Riverboat song at David Zwirner through June 23

Donna Dennis, Dock, 2016. Gouache on paper, 11 x 14-1/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Lesley Heller Gallery
Monday, June 18th, 2018

Passage: Donna Dennis at Lesley Heller

“Ship and Dock/Nights and Days or The Gazer”, on view through June 30