Christopher Williams; Untitled (Study in Yellow/ Berlin) / Dirk Schaper Studio, Berlin / June 21, 2007 (No. 1); 2008. Chromogenic color print, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne © Christopher Williams.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

The Production Line of Credulity: The Rhetoric of Christopher Williams

Williams’s recent retrospective was praised for its critical and visual ingenuity, but was that adoration misplaced?

Gallery View. Anna Wintour Costume Center, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Dead Dressed: Mourning Attire at the Met

An exhibition of Victorian mourning dresses explores rituals, fashion, semiotics and loss.

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

This Project is Experiencing Some Delays: Noah Dillon’s Deferred Reading List

Associate editor Noah Dillon shares some of the things he hasn’t yet made time to read.

Photograph by Dennis Kardon of a detail of Balthus, Thérèse Dreaming,1938. Oil on canvas, 59 x 51 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 © Balthus
Monday, December 23rd, 2013

Cats and Girls: artcritical’s Roundtable on Balthus at the Met

with Duncan Hannah, Dennis Kardon, David Carbone, Christina Kee, Vincent Katz, Nora Griffin

Anthony Caro, End Up, 2010. Steel rusted, cast iron and jarrah wood.?The artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wilson Santiago
Thursday, October 24th, 2013

Sir Anthony Caro: 1924-2013

by way of tribute to the British sculptor who died today, a review from 2011

William Kentridge, Whichever Page You Open, 2013. Drawing, India ink on Craggs Universal Technological Dictionary, 1826, 80-3/4 x 82-5/8 inches. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
Monday, October 21st, 2013

Old Forms For New Uses: William Kentridge at Marian Goodman and the Met

“He works with archaic materials using self-imposed limitations”

Still from the hologram of Kate Moss that closed Alexander McQueen's 2006 show, Widows of Culloden. photo credit: WireImage.com
Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Savage Beauty, Tame Museum: Alexander McQueen at the Met

Offers feminist and museological criticism of the hugely popular show.

Katrin Sigurdardottir, Boiserie, 2010. Installation shot. Courtesy the Met
Friday, May 6th, 2011

May 2011: Colleen Asper, Ariella Budick, and Jeffrey Kastner with moderator David Cohen

Julia Jacquette at Anna Kustera, Josephine Meckseper at the FLAG Art Foundation, Rob Pruitt at (Public Art Fund) Union Square, and Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met

Julia Jacquette, Wine, White, 2009 . Oil on canvas, 79 x 86 inches. Courtesy of Anna Kustera Gallery
Thursday, April 14th, 2011

May Review Panel Line Up

Colleen Asper, Ariella Budick and Jeffrey Kastner are the guests.

Friday, March 4th, 2011

On the Road: John Baldessari’s Pure Beauty

An exhibition speaks differently in different venues.