artcritical’s archive on the artists since 2004

Closing February 25

A featured item from THE LIST

A qualified response to the call of J20 for “An Act of Noncompliance on Inauguration Day”.

These are the brave words that Josephine Halvorson, the painter, posted to Facebook in the early hours this fateful morning. Those of us with art to make or magazines to edit must be thankful for work, as a distraction but also a locus of resistance. I now bless the good luck that led me and … Continued

The case for New York as free museum and university. Archie Rand at the Studio School Wednesday

In 2004 artist Andrew Ginzel produced a list of current art exhibitions for his multimedia class at SVA which he would soon share with friends and friends of friends: SOME but not all SHOWS TO SEE January 16, 2004 Listed ± south to north. This turned itself into a decade-plus obsession with providing what, bizarrely, … Continued

A personal selection culled from THE LIST by our publisher and editor

By Nicole Kaack and Dennis Kardon, plus earlier reviews of the artist in our HUB series

We back the call to make the popular, street smart sculpture a permanent fixture in DUMBO