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 ...

Carol Szymanski, Ceci n'est pas un Kosuth, 2012. Blue fluorescent light, approx. 34 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Guided By Invoices
Monday, May 21st, 2012

How Capitalism Functions: Carol Syzmanski at Guided by Invoices

“this marvelously suggestive mini-retrospective” is up through May 26

Marc Ganzglass, Shear Pin, 2010. ?Steel shear pin, nickel plated, magnet, 4-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Of Scientific Pinterest: “Science on the Back End” at Hauser & Wirth

A group show curated by Matthew Day Jackson, until June 16

Brice Marden, Joined, 2011. Oil and graphite on marble, 26 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Eastern Promise: Brice Marden at Matthew Marks

Renewing his engagement with Chinese art, his own is richly rewarded

Installation shot of work by David Humphrey in the exhibition under review
Friday, May 11th, 2012

Meth Lab of the Modern Psyche: Dr. Freud’s Consulting Room

In this Long Island University exhibition, artists run amok with the idea of Bergstrasse 19

Excerpt from "Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel. Copyright © 2012 by Alison Bechdel. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

“I can’t help you. You’re on your own”: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir

Are Your My Mother? is the much-awaited sequel to Fun Home

Photograph of David Park at his Easel, 1958, by Imogen Cunningham. Reproduced in Helen Park Bigelow’s book reviewed in this article
Sunday, May 6th, 2012

David Park: “The Colors Took My Gaze for a Ride”

Two  biographies, one just out, of the key Bay Area Figurative painter.

Jeremy Deller, Sacrilege, 2012. Site specific sculpture, Glasgow. Photo: Courtesy of Sherman Sam
Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Still a Festival, Not an Art Fair: The Glasgow International

Scotland’s two-week city-wide visual arts festival runs through May 7

Peter Howson, Outcast, 2011. Oil on canvas, 48¼ x 36¼ inches. Courtesy of Flowers Gallery
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Hell and Back: The Religious Paintings of Peter Howson

“Redemption” was on view at Chelsea’s Flowers Gallery March 29 to May 5, 2012

Beryl Korot, Text and Commentary, 1976-1977. detail: linen and wool weavings, each 61 x 24 inches. Photo by John Berens. Courtesy of bitforms gallery nyc.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Palimpsests of Art and Mind: Three Video Installations by Beryl Korot

This mini-survey of works from 1977 to 2008 closes Saturday at bitforms in Chelsea

Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2012. Oil on canvas, 80 x 87 inches. Courtesy of Greene Naftali Gallery
Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Skepticism Free: The Abstract Paintings of Jacqueline Humphries

A review of her recent show at Greene Naftali