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, May 7th, 2015

Philip-Lorca diCorcia on America’s Sins

The photographer’s new series connects the financial crisis to biblical narratives of guilt and redemption.

Friedel Dzubas, Heath Cote (sketch), 1976. Magna acrylic on canvas, 6½ x 6½ inches. Courtesy Loretta Howard Gallery.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Friedel Dzubas: Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis

Works from the 1960s and 1970s in shows at Elkon and Loretta Howard

Bill Jensen, Mountain Tiger-Sky, 2013. Oil on linen, diptych, 40 x 32 inches overall. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

Loom of Origins: Bill Jensen’s Way of Developing

A one-man group show of possibilities at Cheim & Read

Monday, May 4th, 2015

Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy: Six Painters on a Painters’ Painter

A visit and discussion at Richard Diebenkorn’s Royal Academy retrospective.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Jonathas de Andrade: Subverting Cheap Labor and Racism in Brazil

The Brazilian artist’s first New York solo show examine’s South America’s complicated relationship to race and labor.

Shinique Smith, Through Native Streets, 2011. Ink, acrylic, fabric and paper collage, and found objects on canvas over panel, 60 x 48 x 6 inches. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai. Photo: Adam Reich
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Bright Matter: Shinique Smith in Boston

A long-run show at the Museum of Fine Arts and a downtown mural

Tom Fairs, Untitled, 1988. Pencil on paper, 7 x 4-3/4 inches. Courtesy of Kerry Schuss
Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Not A Single Link Too Loose: Tony Feher/Tom Fairs

An inspired coupling at Kerry Schuss on the Lower East Side

Sunday, April 26th, 2015

There is a Season: Julian Hatton’s Figural Painting Gives Way to Abstraction

A new show by a talented painter of abstract expressionist canvases.

Saturday, April 25th, 2015

Two Visions of Realist Painting: Lois Dodd and Brett Bigbee

Two realist painters share space uptown at Alexandre Gallery.

Friday, April 24th, 2015

Parade: Eve Sonneman Diptychs at Nohra Haime

A poet’s point of view. On view Midtown through April 25