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 ...

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015

Plugging in and Moving on: Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures

The second of artcritical’s 2015 dispatches from Venice

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

A Complete Eye of Water: A Summer Show at Ampersand Gallery

Sea, sky, air, and space meet in the respectively trippy, geometric, and photorealist images of three artists.

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Emojis and Emotion: New Painting by Margaux Ogden

Ogden’s work leverages anxiety and excitement, brush on canvas, as pain’ing.

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Light and Liminality: Looking at Suzan Frecon

How and why Suzan Frecon’s recent work really succeeds, bending light and color.

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

The Garage Arrives: Report from a New Museum

Moscow premieres a stunning museum for contemporary art.

Arlene Shechet, Jewel, 2016. Glazed ceramic, painted and carved hardwood, 17 x 15 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015

Unruly Grace: Arlene Shechet in Boston

As stunning new show opens at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, a look back at last year’s retrospective at Boston’s ICA

Rodri?guez Calero, Transcendent, 2013. Acrollage painting, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Friday, September 4th, 2015

Holy Hip-Hop: A Rodriguez Calero Retrospective

The inventive painter and collagist creates new ways of making art and showing the lives of unrepresented people and cultures.

Saturday, August 29th, 2015

Northwest Notes: Dispatch from the Pacific

An absolutely, totally huge tour of art offerings throughout the Pacific Northwest, even going to Canada!

Miguel Horn’s Obelisks (2015),
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

Gaining Traction: Industrial-scale Collaboration in Philadelphia

Traction Company at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Monday, August 24th, 2015

Aesthetics and Social Justice: “Arresting Patterns” at ArtSpace

An exhibition and its extracurricular programming explore artistic representations of mass incarceration.