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Monday, October 1st, 2018
Her exhibition at Theodore: Art runs through October 7 ...
Friday, September 28th, 2018
Natasha Wright, The Believers, 2018. Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches. Courtesy of the artist
Her recent show, Les Biches, was seen on the Lower East Side ...
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
His public sculpture, Spot, is at NYU’s Hassenfield Children’s Hospital ...

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Before You Go: With Drawings by Susan Bee, Dedicated to Emma Bee Bernstein

A collaboration in artcritical’s Poetry for Art series

Frank Stella, right, and Kenneth Tyler at work on a print. Courtesy of Kenneth Tyler
Monday, June 6th, 2011

Betting the Farm on His Art: A Salute to Frank Stella by a Longtime Collaborator

Master printmaker Kenneth Tyler has worked with Frank Stella for 35 years

Monday, May 30th, 2011

The Art of Simon Dinnerstein

His exhibition at the German Consulate General opens June 16

Alain Kirili working on the installation of Résistance in Grenoble, France. Photo by Alain Chaudetto by Lucile Genoulaz
Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Résistance: Alain Kirili’s Monument in Grenoble

On the eve of its inauguration, the sculptor discusses his values and aspirations

Hope Gangloff, The Trouble with Paradise, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 64 x 81 inches. Collection of Cynthia and Stuart Smith
Thursday, May 5th, 2011

The Aldrich at a Crossroads

Portraiture shows at the Aldrich occasion a portrait of the institution itself

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The Mixologist: Peter Reginato at Heidi Cho

Peter Reginato’s gutsy, boisterous assemblages mate the mediums of sculpture and painting.  It would simply be insufficient to describe the components of his collages in steel as colorful.  Welded sculptural form becomes the unlikely support for what would anyway be a dense, involved composition were it contained within the politely conventional dimensions of a stretched … Continued

Lynne Woods Turner, Untitled (9072), 2010. Oil on linen over panel, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Danese
Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Canon is Under Fire: What Press Releases Tell You, and What They Don’t

The abundance of self-anointed anti-establishment shows reminds us that nothing in the art world is sacred

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

The Magic of Twilight: Inka Essenhigh on Working Fast and Being Timeless

Monoprints at Pace Prints Chelsea through April 16. Talk with Alexi Worth at the Studio School Tuesday 29

Robert Rauschenberg, Short Circuit (Combine Painting), 1955. Oil, fabric and paper on wood supports and cabinet with two hinged doors containing a painting by Susan Weil and a reproduction of a Jasper Johns Flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant, 40-3/4 x 37-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Too absorbed by the future to bother about the past: Robert Rauschenberg

If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.

Gina Werfel, Collision, 2010. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Gina Werfel’s Persistence of Vision

2011 essay reposted with new show of paintings at Prince Street Gallery