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
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
An exhibition that follows a fashion designer as she channels the spirit of her times ...

Trevor Paglen, They Watch the Moon, 2010. C-print, 36 x 48 inches. Courtesy The New Museum
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Surfing the Flotsam: Free at the New Museum

on view through January 23

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

The Price of Beauty: Two novels set in the art market

By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham; An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin

Peter Soriano, Other Side #93 (BASC), 2010, Steel Cable, aluminum pipe, and spray paint, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of Frederico Sève Gallery
Monday, December 20th, 2010

Hardware and Software Conspire: Peter Soriano at Frederico Sève

Peter Soriano: Dimensions Variable ran from September 23 to November 6

Gedi Sibony (with Diana Lyon), Who Attracts All That is Named, It Speaks of Them as The Three Bodies, 2010. Canvas, sofa, foam, tape, and cloth, vinyl, dimensions variable. Courtesy Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Photo: John Berens
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Strikingly Simple Gestures: Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali

The show ran from October 22 to December 4

Peter Campus, Fishing Boats at Shinnecock Bay, 2010. still from the video installation, Calling for Shantih, 2010. Courtesy of Cristin Tierney.
Sunday, December 12th, 2010

The Surrogate Eye: Peter Campus’s new videos

On view at Cristin Tierney until December 18

Paul Rudolph, Final rendering of the interior of the HUB including people mover, c. 1967-1972. Color slide. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Brutalist Bridge Builder: Paul Rudolph’s plans for a Lower Manhattan Expressway

Exhibition, organized by Drawing Center, was at the Cooper Union this fall

installation shot of installation shot of Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway as installed in Milan in 2008
Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Leonardo on Park Avenue, Courtesy of Peter Greenaway

The filmmaker’s audio-visual installation is on view at the Park Avenue Armory through January 6

Larry Poons, Southern Exposure, 1986. Acrylic on canvas, 67-1/2 x 208 inches. Courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery.
Friday, December 10th, 2010

From the Cocoon: Larry Poons at Loretta Howard

A group of paintings from the second half of the 1980s, up through December 23.

Benicia Gantner, Ruby + Gold Waterweb, 2010. Vinyl collage on plexiglas, mounted on wood frame, 42 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Walker Contemporary, Boston
Sunday, November 21st, 2010

Abstraction in a Cold Climate

Kristin Baker at the MFA, Boston, and commercial gallery shows of Joanne Mattera, Imi Hwangbo and Benicia Gantner

Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (N-26), 2010, Ink, colored pencil, oil and crayon on paper, 8 5/8 x 9-13/16" inches. The Pace Gallery
Sunday, November 21st, 2010

The Model Abstraction for Our Times: Thomas Nozkowski at Pace

A counter argument to David Cohen’s earlier review of the same show