A current of his own: Charles Burchfield at the Whitney
Heatwaves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield is at the Whitney until October 17
Where contemporary art can get knotted: Kathmandu
BravinLee Programs presents hand-knotted rugs by Nina Bovasso, Peter Halley, James Siena, and James Welling
The Arts Died with Dada: Roy Harris and the Great Debate About Art
In depth review of the semiotician’s pointed pamphlet on the end of art criticism
What you bump into when you stand back from a photograph
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at the Museum of Modern Art, through November 1
Terrestial Breezes and Solar Winds: A studio visit with Roberto Juarez
A TOPICAL PICK FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2010 Studio Visit marks residency/show at La Galleria La Mama
Orgy in the Raw: Joe Fyfe’s “Le Tableau” at Cheim & Read
A geographically and historically wide-angled summer group exhibition.
Billboard Syncopations: James Hyde at the Boiler Room (Pierogi 2000)
The Stuart Davis Group are high jinks riffs on that jazzy pioneer’s painterly syncopations.
![William Kentridge, Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old [Soho and Mrs. Eckstein in Pool], 1991. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 47-1/4 x 59 inches. Collection of the artist © 2010 William Kentridge. Photo: John Hodgkiss, courtesy the artist](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2010/06/Kent-300x199.jpg)
Taking the World by Drawing: William Kentridge and Animation
Where should we locate Kentridge’s sequential, continuous drawing within the eye-popping history of drawn animation?
Engineering Optimism: Mark di Suvero at Paula Cooper Gallery
Soaring forms engender a fearless sense of conquest
Twister: John Giorno at Nicole Klagsbrun
In his debut art show the septuagenerian poet shows wittily and nihilistically twisted truisms
