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 ...

Saturday, February 6th, 2021

Translucence: Jill Nathanson at Berry Campbell

Her diaphanous veils of color are on view in Chelsea through February 6

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Building Blocks: Thomas Scheibitz at Tanya Bonakdar

“Didactic and ludic in equal measure,” a bracing show of new work

Steve Mumford, Police Try to Separate Back the Blue Demonstrators and Counterprotestors, Bayridge, Brooklyn, NY, Jul. 12, 2020, 2020. Pencil on paper, 11 x 15.5 inches. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery and the Artist
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

There to Observe: Steve Mumford’s Dispatches from Rallies and Protests

An exhibition of drawings and watercolors at Postmasters this fall

Richard Rezac, Soliloquy, 2019. Aluminum, cast bronze, painted cast aluminum, 9-1/4 x 34 x 13 inches. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine
Monday, October 5th, 2020

The Entwining of Image and Object: Richard Rezac’s Sculpture

His first New York show in ten years was at Luhring Augustine this summer

Friday, July 24th, 2020

“Charade is in Order”: Judith Henry’s Beauty Masks

Role play and identity in an artist’s book

Henry O. Tanner, The Wreck, c. 1913. Etching on paper, 10 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches. PAFA, Gift of Dr. Constance E. Clayton in loving memory of her mother Mrs. Williabell Clayton.
Saturday, April 18th, 2020

A Central Place in the Academy: The Clayton Collection at PAFA

Philadelphia sees bequest of African American artists

Agnes Pelton, Messengers, 1932. Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 inches. Collection Phoenix Art Museum; Gift of the Melody S. Robidoux Foundation
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Desert Rose: Agnes Pelton at the Whitney

An American visionary whose Transcendentalist canvases hang at the shuttered museum

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

Tsibi Geva: Structure and Entropy

A show of new paintings on view at Albertz Benda this winter

Friday, February 14th, 2020

In the Company of an Ecstatic: Hyman Bloom in Boston

“I had a conviction of immortality, of being part of something permanent and ever changing”

Hyman Bloom, The Harpies, 1947 © Stella Bloom Trust, Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Friday, February 14th, 2020

A Flood That Carries Along Beauty and Destruction: Suzanne Jackson at Ortuzar Projects

“Anti-canvases” like cascading, luminous tapestries