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 ...

John Zurier, Four Times, 2015. Distemper on linen, 21-3/4 x 29-3/4 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Thursday, March 12th, 2015

“Correspondances”: Evocations of Real World Experience in the Paintings of John Zurier

at Peter Blum Gallery on West 57th Street, through April 4

Thursday, March 12th, 2015

So It Goes: A Survey of Painting’s Influence on Other Media

A recent exhibition at Franklin Street Works shows the conversation around painting in video, sculpture, performance, sound, and other media.

Fred Valentine, Toward Grandfather Mountain, 2015. Oil on canvas, 66 x 44 inches. Courtesy of Studio 10, Buskwick
Saturday, March 7th, 2015

A Cry in the Wilderness: Fred Valentine at Studio 10

Paintings that dare to think about feelings, on view in Bushwick through this weekend

Simon Norfolk, The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 1987, 2014. Digital chromogenic print, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery.
Friday, February 27th, 2015

Afghanistan in Time: Simon Norfolk at Benrubi

A photographer tracks time in a beautiful landscape wounded by war.

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

By This River: Greg Lindquist Paints Against Coal-Ash Pollution

An ongoing installation in Wilmington, NC, uses art to call attention to the devastation of environmental despoilation.

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

Always the Bride: Maria Yoon’s Marriage Experiment

The artist’s documentary about her 50 marriages explores the institution’s changing place in American culture.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

Pop History: Jiri Georg Dokoupil’s Modernist Bubbles

The artist uses an idiosyncratic technique to make colorful paintings of bubbles, following in a long line of Modernists.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

States of Mind: Scooter LaForge Paints Cross-Country

The artist has documented his journey across the United States in bright and colorful paintings of passing moments.

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Like This: An Exhibition of Near-Representations

A show of paintings and sculptures by three women takes allusion as its theme and raison.

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Sonia Delaunay in Paris and London

A traveling retrospective of the artist and designer’s work charts her mix of fine and applied art through the previous century.