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 ...

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

Bendix Harms at Anton Kern Gallery, Richard Bosman at Elizabeth Harris, Carroll Dunham at Gladstone Gallery

“Bendix Harms” at Anton Kern Gallery until December 4 (532 W. 20th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-367-9663) “Richard Bosman” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery until November 13 (529 W. 20th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-463-9666) “Carroll Dunham” at Gladstone Gallery until December 4 (515 W. 24th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh, 212-206-9300 … Continued

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder: Work on Paper: 1970s and Recent Alexandre Gallery 41 East 57th Street, 212-755-2828 Joan Snyder: Women Make Lists Betty Cuningham Gallery 541 West 25 Street, 212-242-2772 A version of this article was first published at The New York SUN, November 18, 2004 If you were just a tyke in the 70s, you missed … Continued

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Terry Winters 1981-1986

Matthew Marks Gallery 523 West 24 Street New York NY 10011 212-243-0200 November 6 to December 24, 2004 Strangely there are currently a number of shows around town of 80’s art. One of the best is Matthew Marks show of Terry Winters paintings and drawings from 1981 to 1986. These are some of the earliest … Continued

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Self-Portrait in Car, 1940. Pastel on paper. Jewish Museum, Prague.
Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Innovator, Activist, Healer: The Art of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

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Friedl Dicker-Brandeis at the Jewish Museum

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Albert York and Giorgio Morandi

Albert York: Paintings; A Loan Exhibition Davis and Langdale Company 231 East 60th Street New York 212 838 0333 October 9 – November 13, 2004 Giorgio Morandi: Paintings, 1950-1964” at Lucas Schoormans Gallery 508 West 26th Street, Suite 11B 212 243 3159 December 4, 2004 A version of these reviews was first published in The … Continued

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Jonas Mekas: “From Brooklyn, with Love” (with Martha Colburn and Auguste Varkalis)

Sideshow Gallery 319 Bedford Avenue Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 718 486 8180 In his show “From Brooklyn With Love,” Jonas Mekas exhibits films and stills in which the world is recorded without innuendo or guile. As in all his work known to me, Mekas’ companions and surroundings reveal themselves as one assumes they were encountered … Continued

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Chris Martin

Sideshow 319 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211 September 17 – October 24, 2005 Art belongs to everyone. So Chris Martin has it at his current show at Sideshow. Or should I say around Sideshow.  The first thing one notices on the approach is one of Martin’s signature abstractions looming large in black and red on the … Continued

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Giorgio Morandi: Paintings, 1950-1964

Lucas Schoormans Gallery 508 West 26th Street, Suite 11B 212 243 3159 through December 4, 2004 There are six paintings, one pencil drawing and one watercolor and pencil drawing in this exhibition of works from the last fifteen years of Giorgio Morandi’s life. In Natura Morta, ( most are titled this) 1955 [V944, refer to … Continued

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Richmond Burton at Cheim & Read, Hunt Slonem: Recent Work at Marlborough Chelsea, Reed Danzinger at McKenzie Fine Art

Richmond Burton at Cheim & Read through October 23 (547 W 25 Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, 212 242 7727) Hunt Slonem: Recent Work at Marlborough Chelsea through October 23 (211 West 19 Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, 212 463 8634) Reed Danzinger at McKenzie Fine Art through October 9 (511 W 25 … Continued

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris, Richard Deacon at Marian Goodman, Richard Long at Sperone Westwater

Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris through October 9 (529 West 20 Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, 212 463 9666) Richard Deacon at Marian Goodman through October 7 (24 West 57 Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, 212 977 7160) Richard Long at Sperone Westwater through October 23 (415 West 13 Street, between 9th Avenue … Continued