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, June 23rd, 2016

Chromatic Chronicles: “Narrative Color” at List

A show of color film and video since the 1970s surveys radical formulations of storytelling and color.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Crudely, Playfully: Nicole Eisenman at the New Museum

The painter and sculptor of recent renown has a large survey at the New Museum.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Paint Queer, Gender Fluid, Meaning Ambiguous: Nicole Eisenman at Anton Kern

The figure painter confounds the gender roles expected of her subjects.

Installation view, "Martin Creed: The Back Door," 2016, at the Park Avenue Armory. Photograph by James Ewing, courtesy of the Park Avenue Armory.
Sunday, June 19th, 2016

Back Door Man: Martin Creed at the Park Avenue Armory

The Turner Prize-winning artist and musician’s exhibition is currently on view at the Park Avenue Armory.

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

Haptic Hallucinations: The “Suns” and “Wavy Rays” of Karen Arm

on view at P.P.O.W. through June 25

Friday, June 10th, 2016

Western Culture: Lee Mullican’s Californian Abstraction

A brief history of the work of a West Coast abstract expressionist.

Jean Dubuffet, Vache la belle mufle?e/Cow with the Beautiful Muzzle, 1954. Oil on canvas, 45-5/8 x 35 inches. Private Collection. Photograph by Kent Pell / © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Bull’s Eye: Jean Dubuffet’s Anticultural vision

A major exhibition at Acquavella Galleries, closing June 10

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

No-Place: A Clandestine Exhibition in North Korea

A mysterious collaborative interested in virtuality stages a secret show in the Hermit Kingdom.

Monday, June 6th, 2016

Heartbeats: The Spanish Rhythms of Juan Uslé

The artist draws on biological rhythms and the history of Spanish painting.

Saturday, June 4th, 2016

Ad Absurdum: A Collection of Poems by Marcel Broodthaers

I new translation collects two poems and a suite of appropriated images in one volume.