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 ...

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Mystery Man Revealed: The Biography of Friedel Dzubas

Patricia Lewy delves into the Color Field painter’s German childhood

Saturday, February 8th, 2020

Window on the Environment: Etty Yaniv in DUMBO

at Main Window through February 13

Installation view, "Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone," at the Jewish Museum, 2019 – 20.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

Fairy Tales and Feminism: Rachel Feinstein at the Jewish Museum

The artist takes on feminism and fantasy in her retrospective

Helen Frankenthaler, Bingo, 1962. Oil and collage on paper, 18-1/2 x 24-3/4 inches
Saturday, December 14th, 2019

Competitive Collaboration: Frankenthaler & Motherwell at Mnuchin

On view on the Upper East Side through December 14

Claire McConaughy, Beach Pines, 2019. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and the Painting Center
Friday, November 22nd, 2019

“How Comfortable it will be to touch the Earth”: Claire McConaughy at the Painting Center

On view in Chelsea through November 23

Installation shot of the exhibition under review, courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, showing two still lives by Roe Ethridge discussed by Kardon, Penn and Wet Butt, center, and White Asparagus and Ketchup, right, both 2019.
Thursday, October 31st, 2019

The Function of a Photograph: The Disconcerting world of Roe Ethridge

At the new Andrew Kreps space in Tribeca

Friday, October 18th, 2019

An Insistence on Beauty and Exuberance:  Alma Thomas at Mnuchin Gallery

On view through October 19 on the Upper East Side

Saturday, September 7th, 2019

God-Given to Create: “Quilting The Sun” at Theater for the New City

Set during Reconstruction in the South, a drama as schematic as the quilt it celebrates

Saturday, August 31st, 2019

”The Poetry of Sheer Loveliness”: Milton Avery, Sally Michel and March Avery

Joan Boykoff Baron and Reuben M. Baron on Milton Avery, Sally Michel and March Avery

Johan Wahlstrom, Disconnecting #1, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Ethan Cohen Gallery
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Lost and Found: Faces and Figures in the Art of Johan Wahlstrom

Two shows, radically different in look, explore the human condition in a post-postmodern way