Criticism
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. ...
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
An exhibition that follows a fashion designer as she channels the spirit of her times ...

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

Sidney Geist: Phases of Sculpture

Jason McCoy Inc. 41 East 57th Street New York 10022 February 22 – April 1, 2005 By ERIC GELBER There are examples of free standing, table top, and wall hung sculptures, dating from 1937 to 2004, in this exhibit. Geist’s work is empowered by his consistent inventiveness. Being content to create never before seen objects that … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

John Walker: Collage

Knoedler & Company 19 East 70 Street 212-794-0550 February 3 – March 19, 2005 British-born John Walker is an abstract painter of singular power, fully in possession of his craft. As an artist and much admired teacher, his career has been illustrious and influential. Yet no exhibition should be seen through the distorting lens of … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Steinberg at the New Yorker

PaceWildenstein 52 East 57 Street 212-421-3292 February 11 – March 5, 2005 J. Alfred Prufrock can keep his coffee spoons. I have measured out my life in Saul Steinberg’s New Yorker covers. His first drawing appeared in 1941, before I was born. A survey of his work for the magazine is a timeline of my … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Paul Vinet and Hannelore Baron

Senior & Shopmaker 21 East 26th Street 212-213-6767 January 27 – March 5, 2005 Paul Vinet, a young French artist currently based in Washington D.C. , first exhibited “Learning From New York” at Jan van der Donk Rare Books in Chelsea in 2000/2001. This series of color photographs depicts the city from a pedestrian’s point … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Jane Freilicher: Paintings, 1954 – 2004

Tibor de Nagy Gallery 724 Fifth Avenue 212-262-5050 January 13 – February 12, 2005 Refinement is in such short supply that I feel ungrateful to be less than wholehearted about Jane Freilicher’s show at Tibor de Nagy. Any reservation seems a sin against civility, like kicking the Queen Mother’s corgies. But disappointment sets in when … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Tom McGrath

Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) 530 West 24 Street New York NY 10011 212 989 7700 December 6, 2004 to January 22, 2005 Tom McGrath’s second solo exhibition at Zach Feuer Gallery continues to explore themes of the road and car culture that he initiated in 2002. While a broad tradition of landscape painting informs the … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Raymond Pettibon: New Work

David Zwirner 525 W 19 Street, New York 212-727-2070 November 23- December 24, 2004 Maybe it’s my age. Perhaps it’s the intimacy of experience I’ve shared with an irreverent aesthetic found largely in underground comics and zines, music and mayhem as I grew up in America. In any case, it’s overabundant in the work of … Continued

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

John Cross: Sculpture

John Davis Gallery 330 West 38 Street New York, NY 10018 212-244-3797 February 3 – February 26, 2005 According to F. David Martin, in his great book “Sculpture & Enlivened Space,” haptic perceptions are “feelings of things and events inside the skin.” On one level John Cross wants the viewer to discover the lovely patterns … Continued

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Anthony Caro at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

“Anthony Caro: Painted Sculpture” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash until February 6 1018 Madison Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets, 212-744-7400 You could call Sir Anthony Caro the Madonna of sculpture. However irreverent to recall the Pop diva in relation to so high-minded a modernist as Mr. Caro, the sculptor shares with the entertainer a protean … Continued

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

Susan Shatter: New Watercolors From Maine

lyonswiergallery 511 West 25th Street 212.242.6220 January 6 – February 5, 2005 Susan Shatter’s painting is not seen often enough. The last time I looked at her work was at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was just two years ago at the Academy’s annual invitational. The two small oils were on view … Continued