Joined David Cohen to review shows of Diana Al-Hadid, Mernet Larsen, Gerhard Richter and Andrea Zittel

Part of a group show earlier this summer

This was an artcritical PIC OF THE FAIRS in March 2010

Al-Hadid has been hooked on towers for several years now, involved in what can be taken as a reverse Watts Towers syndrome — instead of transforming found, non-art materials to create an aspirational edifice, she deploys considerable artistry to depict with a literalist intensity state of the art, fabricated structures in a frozen instant of failure.