![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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![Kelley Walker, Schema: Aquafresh plus Crest with Scope, 2003. Digital file, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2016/11/kwalker-2-275x196.jpg)
The Obligation to Explain
“if Kelley Walker had made a cogent argument for his art… there would have been far fewer expressions of anger and outrage.”
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Commentary: Towards a more fluid definition of Blackness
“The art world needs to renew its ideas of racial inclusion”
![Installation shot of the exhibition, Representing Rainbows, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis at Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, September 2016, showing a work by Shinique Smith. Photo: Michael Scoggins](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2016/10/ssmith-rainbows-275x275.jpg)
Towards a more fluid definition of Blackness
“The art world needs to renew its ideas of racial inclusion”
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Lars Fisk at Marlborough
Although he’s previously worked with Marlborough Chelsea, notably in their “Broadway Morey Boogie” installation along Broadway between 59th and 166th streets in 2014 and ’15, “MR. SOFTEE” is Lars Fisk’s first solo show with the gallery. Fisk formerly worked with the trippy jam band Phish, doing stage design, and his work here is definitely psychedelic, … Continued
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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.](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2016/10/Survivial-Does-Not-Lie-in-the-Heavens-2-275x180.jpg)
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.
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Lois Dickson at John Davis Gallery, Hudson and The Painting Center, New York
When, earlier this fall, I had the chance to examine an extensive group of recent paintings in Lois Dickson’s Columbia County studio something that became very clear was the particular nature of development in her work, whether within a given canvas or from picture to picture or across this segment of her mature oeuvre. Ludic … Continued
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“A Constant Witness”: Richard Serra on Richard Bellamy
A conversation with Erik La Prade
![Sarah Walker in her studio, August 2016. Photo: Mary Jones](https://artcritical.com/app/uploads/2016/09/Sarah_Walker__photo_by_Jones-275x243.jpg)
Brainbow: Sarah Walker in conversation with Mary Jones
Her show, Space Machines, is on view at Pierogi Gallery on the Lower East Side through October 9
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Clintel Steed at Steven Harvey
A marriage of the plastic and the personal gives his work intensity and edge