Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
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Jana Winderen, Disco Bay, 2007, field photograph, Greenland. Courtesy of the artist.
Monday, October 28th, 2013

Imperfect Pitch: In Search of Sound at MoMA

The museum’s first show dedicated to sound art is up through Nov 3

David Hammons, Spade (Power to the Spade),1969, Body print, pigment, and mixed media on paper, 53 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches. Collection of Jack and Connie Tilton, New York. On view at Grey Art Gallery, NYU.
Friday, October 25th, 2013

Radical Bodies at Grey Art Gallery

A two-part exhibition tells the story of black performance art in the 20th century

Bjorn Copeland, Remnant Screen IV, 2013. Courtesy of Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

Failing Better: Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley

“a Bushwick flaneurial revelling in oddball sidewalk finds”

William Kentridge, Whichever Page You Open, 2013. Drawing, India ink on Craggs Universal Technological Dictionary, 1826, 80-3/4 x 82-5/8 inches. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
Monday, October 21st, 2013

Old Forms For New Uses: William Kentridge at Marian Goodman and the Met

“He works with archaic materials using self-imposed limitations”

Installation view: Aldo Tambellini, We Are The Primitives Of A New Era at James Cohan Gallery, 2013. Photographer: Bill Orcutt
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Spooky and Luscious: Aldo Tambellini at James Cohan

Reconstructed environments of pioneering cameraless films prefigure upcoming MoMA screenings

Installation view featuring (on the right) Nine Cosmic CD’s: For The Firespitter (Jayne Cortez), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 45h x 137.5w inches. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
Saturday, October 12th, 2013

Cosmic Put-on: Notes on Jack Whitten

Paintings of the 4th dimension

Words For Art
Friday, October 11th, 2013

Too Smart To Be Caught In A System: Barry Schwabsky’s Words for Art

“Schwabsky is a master of concision”

Anne Truitt, Second Requiem, 1977/1980. Acrylic on wood, 84 x 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Friday, October 11th, 2013

Finding a Place: Anne Truitt from the 1970s at Matthew Marks Gallery

A true independent with a pastoral sense of existing within a landscape

Torbjørn Rødland, The Corner, 2008-13, 55 1/8 x 43 5/16 inches. Courtesy of Algus Greenspon.
Thursday, October 10th, 2013

The New Image: Torbjørn Rødland at Algus Greenspon

A photographer’s serious conceptual tone with a hint of satire

Joanne Ziprin, screen-printed greeting card for Inkweed Art [“Stop doodling! Be my Valentine~”] 4 7?8 x 23 7?8 inches, ca. 1952. Photo credit: Jeffrey Sturges. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Carol Bove’s Uncanny Authorship

A staged meeting of the art object with its other at Maccarone