“When masquerades do their work, proposing alternate faces for the ones we know or might expect, their impersonations are not subtle. Rather, they actively reach out to signal that a charade is in order, and a role is being played. They can’t help but pull appraisal toward their own contrivance, as such. A viewer may … Continued

In an irony lost on neither participant, Robert Storr and I found ourselves discussing works by Gerhard Richter that are intimately concerned with painting’s fraught relationship with photographic mediation, while looking at a checklist of his current show at The Met Breuer on a shared Zoom screen. Rob had seen the show in its brief … Continued

Discussing Curtis Talwst Santiago, Willa Nasatir, Gelah Penn and Joanna Pousette-Dart

Joanna Pousette-Dart, whose show at Lisson Gallery will be discussed at next week’s installment of The Review Panel – is in conversation this afternoon with Phong Bui at 4pm. 138 Tenth Avenue in Chelsea.  Tomorrow is the last day to see Gelah Penn’s show at Undercurrent in DUMBO, while the other two venues, the Drawing Center … Continued

Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting celebrates diversity of intentions, makers and styles alike as befits a group exhibition devoted to the ancient Greek concept of “guest-friendship”. There are portraits by and of artists in the show, imaginary portraits of fictive personae (Robin F. Williams has two of Siri, avatars perhaps of be the disembodied Apple … Continued

artcritical.com/reserve The New Moma Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11 West 53rd Street, Midtown Manhattan Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors Of War Times Square Arts, Times Square: Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th streets, Midtown Manhattan An Opening: Kameelah Janan Rasheed A sound and art installation drawn from the Muslims in Brooklyn oral histories collection Brooklyn Historical Society, … Continued

Graham Nickson is arguably the most galvanizing art educator seen in New York since Hans Hofmann, if you add up the alumni of his legendary drawing marathons and students of four decades at the New York Studio School. The British-born artist likes to challenge his charges to embrace the opposite of their usual practice or … Continued

As noted earlier in THE LIST, in relation to such shows as Postmaster’s PRIDE and 1969 Gallery’s Stonewall 50/50, the half-centenary of Stonewall has prompted several galleries around the city to declare an unofficial gay history month, neatly overlapping this year’s New York City Pride parade. Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects has an especially poignant and insightful show of two friends, … Continued

“You don’t hear much these days about strength of character, but Tom had that, with kindness backed by confidence. As well, he was free and brave: a dissenting but platonic American.” These are the words of Schjeldahl who, with 20 other admirers and friends of the late artist joined me at artcritical in a garland of tributes. The other … Continued

I’m taking the liberty here of writing a message to personal contacts from my gmail address book because some friends and colleagues have complained recently that they have “fallen off” the artcritical mailing list. This might, in some cases, have been a subtle criticism to the effect that we have fallen off in our commitment to … Continued