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 ...

Monday, May 20th, 2019

Performance Art: RoseLee Goldberg’s Call to Arms

Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century from Thames & Hudson

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 30-1/2 inches. Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; via Matthew Marks Gallery
Friday, May 17th, 2019

Uncomfortable Questions: Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks

Mordant “late” works were on view earlier this spring

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

The Botanical Sublime: Po Kim, Sylvia Wald, Young Sup Han, Young Hie Nam

A group show of two couples, at the Sylvia Wald Po Kim Gallery through June 6

Installation shot of the exhibition under review, with works by Nari Ward: “Sky Juice,” 1993; “Iron Heavens,” 1995; “Blue Window-Brick Vine,” 1993; “Savior,” 1996. Image courtesy of the New Museum. Maris Hutchinson/EPW Studio
Sunday, May 5th, 2019

Between the Ancestors and the Living: Nari Ward at the New Museum

A mid-career retrospective with profound lessons about youth and struggle

A work by Charles Spurrier from 2000. Image details to follow
Saturday, May 4th, 2019

A Blast from the Past: David Cohen on Charles Spurrier in December 2000

as his show of new works opens in Brooklyn’s 490 Atlantic Avenue

Friday, April 19th, 2019

“Here one can be both modest and ambitious”: Report from the Québec City Biennial

According to our critic, this was the world’s coldest biennial!

Friday, April 19th, 2019

Consciousness Raising: Martha Rosler at the Jewish Museum

A long overdue mid-career retrospective

Subhankar Banerjee, Caribou Migration I (Oil and the Caribou, Coleen River Valley), 2002. Digital chromogenic print. Collection Lannan Foundation. © Subhankar Banerjee.
Monday, April 15th, 2019

Manifest Disaster: Two historic exhibitions bear witness to ecological woes

Japanese and American landscape shows at Princeton University Art Museum

William Corwin, Lenten Altar at the Judson Memorial Church, 2019, with Teeth, 2018, hydrocal and sand, detail. Photo: Tommy Mintz
Monday, April 15th, 2019

Angels for Lent: William Corwin at the Judson Memorial Church

A celebration of his residency is this Tuesday, 5PM to 7.30PM

Cansu Korkmaz, Quite a While # 4, 2017-2018. Photograph. Courtesy: the artist
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Lovers’ Discourse: Cansu Korkmaz at SOHO20

Quite a While, a series of photo collages, on view in Bushwick through April 14