The Review Panel Returns, via Zoom
Lee Ann Norman and Hrag Vartanian discuss Odili Donald Odita at Jack Shainman and “Without Gorky” on Netflix
Pets of the Pandemic
Many pets have been helping us through the COVID-19 crisis, but many have also been left homeless by the crisis. Helping those in need, Alpha 137 Gallery is organizing an online exhibition benefiting Best Friends Animal Society and the artists themselves. The open call to sculptors, painters, printmakers, and mixed media artists in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and…
Max Kozloff on Judith Henry
“When masquerades do their work, proposing alternate faces for the ones we know or might expect, their impersonations are not subtle. Rather, they actively reach out to signal that a charade is in order, and a role is being played. They can’t help but pull appraisal toward their own contrivance, as such. A viewer may…
“Charade is in Order”: Judith Henry’s Beauty Masks
Role play and identity in an artist’s book
Launching Tonight at BPL Presents
In an irony lost on neither participant, Robert Storr and I found ourselves discussing works by Gerhard Richter that are intimately concerned with painting’s fraught relationship with photographic mediation, while looking at a checklist of his current show at The Met Breuer on a shared Zoom screen. Rob had seen the show in its brief…
“There Are No Right Answers”: Robert Storr discusses Gerhard Richter with David Cohen
The Review Panel Special from May 2020
“To Do Rothko Again, After Nature”: Wolf Kahn in conversation with David Cohen
An interview from 1999. Kahn passed away March 15, 2020
“Daring, Bright, Courageous”: Wolf Kahn, 1927-2020
In tribute to the great colorist, an essay from 2010 by Christina Kee and an interview from 1999 by David Cohen
A Central Place in the Academy: The Clayton Collection at PAFA
Philadelphia sees bequest of African American artists
Desert Rose: Agnes Pelton at the Whitney
An American visionary whose Transcendentalist canvases hang at the shuttered museum
