Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
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Friday, November 14th, 2014

Happy Hunting: Michael Bell-Smith at Foxy Production

Who is the Elmer Fudd of Post-Internet art?

Thursday, November 13th, 2014

Social Collaboration in the Fifth Borough: William Corwin and Neil Greenberg at Staten Island Arts

Show remembers the borough’s past and imagines possible futures

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Clusterfunk: Six Solo Shows in Two Galleries

Two galleries cluster three solo shows each, a less-than-ideal way to show interesting work by six artists.

Bettina Blohm, Diagram 1, 2014. Charcoal on paper, Courtesy of Marc Straus Gallery
Monday, November 10th, 2014

Diagrams Intuited: Bettina Blohm at Marc Straus

An abstract painter with drawing roots in the landscape

Blue Note, for Al, 2014. Melted plastic, acrylic pigmented fiberglass, electric lights, 105 x 172 x 35 inches. Courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery
Saturday, November 8th, 2014

Quicksand: Judy Pfaff at Loretta Howard and Pavel Zoubok

A double whammy show at 531 West 26th Street

Friday, November 7th, 2014

Absolutely Curtains: Karla Black’s Diaphanous Walls at Modern Art

Black’s site-specific installation undermine the conventions around materials and their gendered connotations.

Theresa Chong, LU (Walking Carefully), 2014. Gouache and colored pencil on Shikibu Gampi, 12 x 11-3/4 inches. Courtesy of Danese/Corey
Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Imagined Landscape: Theresa Chong at Danese/Corey

A show of small works on paper, through November 15

A scene from Frederick Wiseman’s “National Gallery”. Courtesy of Zipporah Films
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Upstairs Downstairs: Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery

Now playing at Film Forum, through November 18

Christopher Williams; Untitled (Study in Yellow/ Berlin) / Dirk Schaper Studio, Berlin / June 21, 2007 (No. 1); 2008. Chromogenic color print, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne © Christopher Williams.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

The Production Line of Credulity: The Rhetoric of Christopher Williams

Williams’s recent retrospective was praised for its critical and visual ingenuity, but was that adoration misplaced?

Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2012. Oilstick on paper, 16-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
Friday, October 31st, 2014

Jewel-Pure Color: Harriet Korman at Lennon, Weinberg

“Rigorous, flat, unpredictable, startling, deadpan, funny”