Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
An exhibition that follows a fashion designer as she channels the spirit of her times ...

Saturday, June 21st, 2014

Radically Conservative: Franklin Einspruch on Susan Vecsey & James Walsh

Susan Vecsey and James Walsh lead the vanguard revival of the Tenth Street abstractionists.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

Outside the Box: David Carrier on the Legacy of Shaped Canvases

Two exhibitions chronicle the disparate and sometimes radical uses of shaped canvases since the 1960s.

Matt Freedman, excerpt from Relatively Indolent But Relentless: A Cancer Treatment Journal, 2014.
Monday, June 16th, 2014

Cancer, Chemo, Comedy: David Brody on Matt Freedman’s Cancer Treatment Journal

David Brody on Matt Freedman’s dark, comic, and touching memoir of recovery from cancer.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2014

Fuzzy Reception: Michael Berryhill at Kansas

Berryhill’s new punning paintings tease viewers and confound their expectations.

Victoria Fu, Belle Captive III, 2013, digital video with sound, 6 minute loop. Courtesy the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

Beautiful Prisoners: Victoria Fu at Simon Preston and the Whitney

Hot colored video art on the Lower East Side, up thru Sat, June 7

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

Mindy to Mork: Animated GIF as Cultural Relic

The Reaction GIF: Moving Image as Gesture at the Museum of the Moving Image

Paul Cézanne, The Buffet, 1887-79. Oil on linen, 65 x 81 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Paul Cézanne: Site/Non-Site

Madrid show applies Robert Smithson’s ideas to Cézanne

Stuart Elster, In Dazzle Blue #2, 2012. Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Junior Projects
Monday, May 26th, 2014

Constructing “Boatness” from the Abstraction of Camouflage: Stuart Elster at Junior Projects

Show references Dazzle campaign of World War I

Shirley Kaneda, Restrained Decadence , 2014. Acrylic and linen on canvas, 64 x 54 inches. Courtesy of Galerie Richard
Saturday, May 10th, 2014

The Painterly and the Linear: Shirley Kaneda and Robert Mangold

Slow abstractionists of contrasting sensibility in overlapping Chelsea shows

Installation shot of the exhibition under review with, from left, Hare with Forks, c.1924, Plucked Goose, c.1933, The Rabbit, c.1924 and Table with Skinned Rabbit, c.1923. Photography by Chris Burke. Images courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014

Sensuous Orgies of Luminous Writhing Paint: Chaim Soutine Still Lifes

At Kasmin Gallery, West 27th Street, through June 14