Karen E. Jones and Christopher Stackhouse are David Cohen’s guests, discussing Hugo McCloud: Burdened, at Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 Tenth Avenue; and “Black Futures” by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, One World (Penguin Random House) For Zoom credentials, register at artcritical.com/reserve    

On Wednesday evening (January 27), Brooklyn-based painter Ben Pritchard will be interviewed by artcritical editor David Cohen on Zoom, in conjunction with his ongoing exhibition at the Equity Gallery, “Ecstatic Visions of the Day”. For log-in details, RSVP here. “I think of painting as a quasi religious activity involving the concept of the sacred,” Pritchard has … Continued

Laura Karetzky was the winner of the 2020 artcritical prize at the New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition. This prize takes the form of a feature article at artcritical; this year, the artist has agreed to be interviewed in a live event, taking place this evening, January 26 at 6pm. Participation is limited to 100 … Continued

Saturday, January 2, 2021, 6 PM to 8 PM EST Zoom, Meeting ID: 876 0247 0725 Passcode: 574243 If your memory of art magazine holiday parties is of everyone shouting at once, being jostled in a crowd, not being able to sit down, feeling like you missed the celebrities, drinking too many cocktails and wondering … Continued

Laura Karetzky’s painting, Toast (2019), is a fitting image of seasonal cheer for this strangest of years lived vicariously through screens. A family huddled around a Hanukkah menorah, illuminated by the glow of its candles, is snapped on a phone that is itself captured in the reflection. Karetzky’s painting “hung” this summer in the virtual 2020 New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition … Continued

Part of a global tour, seen recently at Asya Geisberg Gallery in Chelsea

Joining David Cohen to discuss Theaster Gates and David Wojnarowicz, Zooming from Brooklyn Public Library

Seventeen artists, “quarantined in Williamsburg and developing cabin fever,” according to their press release, responded to a group chat instigated by one of their number, Brenda Zlamany, that buoyed them along through lockdown. This show is an offshoot of their collective energy and remains on view weekends, in a commercial space that’s on the rental market in … Continued

Typically, New Yorkers cool their heels during the dog days of summer in air conditioned museums, then, come Labor Day, make up for lost art exposure by dashing around town in a mad rush of gallery openings. Typically! We finally have the chance now to buy timed tickets to long-shuttered museums and their rudely interrupted presentations such as Donald Judd … Continued

Many pets have been helping us through the COVID-19 crisis, but many have also been left homeless by the crisis. Helping those in need, Alpha 137 Gallery is organizing an online exhibition benefiting Best Friends Animal Society and the artists themselves. The open call to sculptors, painters, printmakers, and mixed media artists in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and … Continued