Criticism
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Paul Kos, Aspen, 2009. Video projection on paint on canvas. 6 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim
Monday, August 29th, 2011

Quasi Una Fantasia: A Summer Trio From San Francisco

Paul Kos and Jim Melchert at Paule Anglim, Shahzia Sikander at the Art Institute

Cover of the book under review
Sunday, August 28th, 2011

“The Psycho-Historical Backdrop”: New Cuban Art of the 1980s and ’90s

Rachel Weiss’s To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art, from Minnesota

Lois Dodd, Elliott's Place, 1993. Oil on panel, 11-3/4 x 19 inches. Courtesy of Caldbeck Gallery
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Interesting for No Good Reason: Lois Dodd in Maine

A 40 year survey of real and imagined scenes at the Calbeck Gallery, Rockland, this summer

Xavier Cha, Body Drama, 2011. I(nstallation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Performance with actor and body-mounted video camera; and video, color, silent; time variable, looped. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Distance and Dissonance: Xavier Cha at the Whitney

Body Drama, live performance and video projection, continues through October 9.

Brian Banda, Empty Promises, 2011. Acrylic on cardboard. photo by Silver Simphor
Monday, August 15th, 2011

Paris-Harare: Focus on Inner Vision

Artists from Harare’s First Floor Gallery were on view at Pavé D’Orsay in Paris this Spring

Tejal Shah, You Too Can Touch the Moon (from the Hijra Fantasy series), 2006. Numbered photograph on archival paper, 147 x 96.5 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste et Project 88, Bombay
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Passage to Postmodernity: Paris-Delhi-Bombay

at the Centre Pompidou through September 19

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Thriving on Drama and Discordance: The Life of Alice Neel

A review of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Transcending Barriers: George Tun Sein at Tally Beck Contemporary

This Lower East Side show is up through August 30

Horst Ademeit: untitled mixed media / polaroid, 11 x 9 cm Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Mystique and conspiracy: The Polaroids of Horst Ademeit

An oeuvre of several thousand photographs and hundreds of pages of text.

Edouard Manet, The Railway (The Gare Saint-Lazare), 1873. Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W Havemeyer.
Sunday, July 31st, 2011

“Enchantment and Malaise”: Michel Foucault on Manet

Publication of a 1971 lecture in Tunis, reissued in time for the recent exhibition in Paris