Featured item from THE LIST: Opening Thursday in Philadelphia
Andre Bradley and Paul Anthony Smith: Interference at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center 1400 N. American Street Crane Arts Building Opening reception and artists’ talk, 6-8pm This exhibition pairs two artists for whom “experiences of selfhood and community [are] inseparable from the stereotypes and violence that pervade representation of black people.” The show is one … Continued
See the shows this weekend for THE REVIEW PANEL Monday
Ubu Gallery, presenting Heide Hatry: Icons in Ash, is open Monday to Friday. This is one of five shows to be discussed at The Review Panel at Brooklyn Public Library on Monday (Note: not our usual Tuesday gathering) so see it today or on the day of the panel. The other artists I’ll discuss with … Continued
Featured Item from THE LIST for Art Fair Week: Mernet Larsen at The Armory Show
Various Small Fires, the Los Angeles gallery, has a solo show of preparatory sketches by Tampa, Florida-based painter Mernet Larsen in the Presents section of The Armory Show 2017. Larsen, who also has a work on view at James Cohan Gallery’s booth at the same fair, has only recently come into her own since retiring … Continued
Featured item from THE LIST: Doron Langberg at 1969
The breakout paintings of Doron Langberg from around five years ago collided intimism and raunch to potent effect. Their slow-read romantic symbolism hovered between coyness and luxuriance as if the brush could’t quite believe the homoerotic explicitness it was being enlisted to depict. The latest paintings from this still-young Israeli-born, UPenn and Yale graduate, on view … Continued
featured item from THE LIST for Thursday, February 16: Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read
“Ron Gorchov can lay claim to a rare achievement: He has created a distinctive form without becoming formulaic.” A typical show of his work is “lively, diverse, and energized. Far from being specific to one mood or message, Gorchov’s idiom turns out to have the flexibility of a sonnet, conveying a whole range of emotions … Continued
Double Panel Week for David Cohen
The Review Panel at Brooklyn Public Library this evening, and first ever ART BOOK REVIEW PANEL at the Studio School tomorrow
Tonight! The Review Panel at Brooklyn Public Library, with Jessica Bell Brown, Jennifer Samet and John Yau
Please join us for a drinks reception after the event hosted by The Gallery@1GAP, proud supporters of artcritical
A featured item from “Week at a Glance” at THE LIST
Willard Boepple is deeply attuned to the shape of color. His sheer, skeletal sculptures, abstracted from their surroundings in emphatic though often offbeat monochromes, accentuate the sensation of a succession of planes. His unique screenprints, published in cycles, are supremely, playfully dimensional, teasing different readings within nested families of stenciled forms through intuitively progressive color variations. In what … Continued
Totem and Taboo
By special arrangement, Tillou Fine Art will open today from 1pm to 6.30pm to accommodate audience attending The Review Panel this evening at 7pm. Daniel Horowitz: Totem and Taboo is one of the shows to be discussed. Brooklyn Public Library is a 20 minutes walk from Tillou. Horowitz’s paintings, which are exhibited alongside a collection … Continued