![Natasha Wright, The Believers, 2018. Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches. Courtesy of the artist](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2018/09/NW-Believers-275x205.jpg)
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![Cordy Ryman: Free Fall, at Tower 49 Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and Tower 49](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-23-at-1.00.16-PM-275x185.png)
Everything Looks Easy: Cordy Ryman discusses his installation at Tower 49 with David Rhodes and Ai Kaita
Cordy Ryman: Free Fall, through May 2018
![Irving Petlin, The Nile](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/11/PETLIN_Storms_TheNile-275x116.jpg)
Irving Petlin’s Facture
This essay has been published in conjunction with a survey of Petlin’s work at the National Arts Club, on view through January 4
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Brenda Zlamany at the Derfner Judaica Museum, Bronx
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Jacob El Hanani Linescape: Four Decades at Acquavella Galleries
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![Janet Fish, Salad Fixings, 1983. Oil on linen, 38 x 56 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-30-at-2.34.58-PM-e1506796886948-275x189.png)
Janet Fish: Pinwheels and Poppies, Paintings 1980-2008 at DC Moore Gallery
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![Leslie Wayne, The Availability Bias, 2017. Oil on panel, 29.5 x 24 x 4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/09/availablity-275x344.jpg)
The Family Clown: A Studio Visit with Leslie Wayne
Leslie Wayne: Free Experience at Jack Shainman Gallery, September 7 to October 21, 2017 Leslie Wayne is known for the vivid density and colorful materiality of her work, most recently a collection of what she called “paint rags” which hang from the wall, and are actually made of many layers of paint. Her latest work, … Continued
![Jennifer Packer, Untitled, 2017. Oil on canvas, 10.5 x 12.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Corvi-Mora, London](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/09/Packer_3160-275x236.jpg)
“Not Figures, Not Bodies, But Humans”: Jennifer Packer in conversation with Lee Ann Norman
Her show is at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, through November 5
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“Pure Sculptural Energy”: Seeing Rodin, Reading Steinberg
As the Met’s centennial Rodin exhibition opens, Leo Steinberg’s great essay from the 1960s is recalled
![Clintel Steed, Runners #1 (Olympic Series), 2017. Oil on masonite, 48 x 19 inches. Courtesy of the Artist](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/08/CS-Runners-275x110.jpg)
“That is What Painters Do. We Look for Subject Matter”: Clintel Steed in conversation with David Cohen
“I wanted to paint this subject because all the athletes are so in tune with themselves”
![cover of the book under review, with portrait of the artist by Chuck Close](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2017/08/kandel-275x208.jpg)
The Beholder’s Share
Drawing on family experience, the author dives into the neuroscience of figuration and abstraction