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 ...

Susan Bee, Ruckenfigur, 2013, oil on linen, 24 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Accola Griefen Gallery.
Friday, June 28th, 2013

Longing Inside the Frame: Susan Bee at Accola Griefen

Cinematic pathos meets painterly expression

Eve Aschheim, Pinch, 2013, oil and graphite on canvas on panel, 22 1/16 x 17 1/4 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

Rigors Apart: Ying Li and Eve Aschheim at the New York Studio School

Two abstract painters take on the elegance of form

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hommage A Rivière, 2002, wooden half boat, 7 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, IF4633. Image courtesy of David Nolan Gallery.
Friday, June 21st, 2013

The Sea, the Sea: Ian Hamilton Finlay at David Nolan

Words as raw materials = playful sculpture

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Queering Kinship: Hervé Guibert, Francesca Woodman, and Others at Callicoon

The hungry ghost and the true friend

Matthew Barney, HYPERTROPHY (incline), 1991, light-reflective vinyl, graphite pencil, and petroleum jelly on paper in self-lubricating plastic frame,10 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of R. L. B. Tobin. Copyright Matthew Barney. Digital image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Mythology, Mortality, Mailer, and Vaseline: Matthew Barney at the Morgan

An avant-garde ruckus in the library

Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun Installation view, 540 West 26th Street, May 2 to June 22, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

The Limits of Confession: Tracey Emin at Lehmann Maupin

The English enfant terrible scales new heights

Installation view of Hansjoerg Dobliar: "Hysterie und Abstraktion." Courtesy of Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York.
Saturday, June 8th, 2013

Celestial Order and Hysterical Flourishes: Hansjoerg Dobliar at Vogt

German painter on view through June 15

Gedi Sibony, First There Was This, 2013, light box, 51 x 54 x 10 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Turns of Phrase: Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali

Rugged minimalism, nursery rhymes, and painterly expression

Ken Price, Big Load, 1988, fired and painted clay, 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 17 inches. Collection of Stephane Janssen, Arizona. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Rough Beauty: The Ceramic Sculpture of Ken Price

His retrospective, seen in LA, comes to the Met in June

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Daring to be Beautiful: Robert Zakanitch at Nancy Hoffman

Pattern and Decoration is a reductive and therefore not very astute term in relation to Zakanitch