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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013, Forest Houses, Bronx, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Romain Lopez.
…It made me proud to be an artist and a New Yorker ...
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Honore Daumier, Galerie Tableaux. Image taken from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository.
What differentiates a “gallerist” from a dealer or a curator? ...

Tony Robbin, 2009-7, 2007. Acrylic on Canvas, 56 x 70 inches. Courtesy the artist.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

In Einstein’s Cave: Tony Robbin, An Appreciation

This in-depth essay describes at artist at home in the fourth dimension

Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Lucifer Hump 1962. Acrylic on canvas, 38 x 51.25 inches ©2017 Estate of Paul Jenkins. On view, summer 2017, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Friday, June 30th, 2017

“Like A Bell Tolling Deeply In The Sea”: Fr. Paul Anel on the Paintings of Paul Jenkins

A Catholic priest offers his personal perspective

Friday, October 14th, 2016

Aubrey Roemer: Helping the World, Painting by Painting

A young Brooklyn artist travels the globe, interacting with oppressed people.

Dario Robleto, Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens, 2012. Digital inkjet prints on Sintra; 31 x 31, 46 x 46, and 31 x 31 inches, respectively. Grand Rapids Art Museum. Courtesy of ArtPrize.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

The People Speak: A Report from the 2016 ArtPrize

Now in its seventh year, the egalitarian art competition concludes, awarding prizes from a jury and the public.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

A Curious Proposition: The Paintings of Jonathan Lyndon Chase

In prizewinning work by graduating student, images that display an “overwhelming elasticity”

Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

Mapping Joyce Kozloff: The Political and The Decorative Intertwined

Seen recently at DC Moore, the French Institute, the Brooklyn Historical Society and BRIC

Installation shot of three works, each 9 x 9 inches, 2014, in the exhibition under review
Monday, March 30th, 2015

Orientation Games: Getting the Hang of a Painting by Kazimira Rachfal

An essay posted on the occasion of her new show at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery

Alfredo Jaar, Shadows (detail), 2014. Lightbox with black and white transparency, 12 x 13 inches. Original photograph by Koen Wessing (1942-2011): Estelí, Nicaragua, September 1978. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Lelong.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015

Grave and Buried: Alfredo Jaar and Nicaragua’s Ignored History

Using photographs by Koen Wessing, Jaar remembers a moment in the nation’s decades-long cold war strife.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina. Photo: Celeste Sloman © 2014
Friday, November 21st, 2014

Pussy Riot at PS1: A Report and Some Reflections

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, with Petya Verzilov, were interviewed by Klaus Biesenbach

Stuart Shils, Photograph, 2014. Courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

Painting by Other Means: The Photography of Stuart Shils

Essay from his book launching at Steven Harvey tonight