Kasmin show challenges assumptions about artist’s beginnings

The late artist is the subject of four simultaneous exhibitions, including a MoMA retrospective.

In the Blancs, colored forms made by folding and creasing the canvas

The artist uses an idiosyncratic technique to make colorful paintings of bubbles, following in a long line of Modernists.

Arson as a kind of avant-garde, reorganizing our experience of the exhibition space.

This simple study of fire destroying a Mercedes is mesmerizing and scary.

At Kasmin Gallery, West 27th Street, through June 14

Alison Knowles at James Fuentes LLC, Jaq Chartier at Morgan Lehman, Iván Navarro at Paul Kasmin, and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Gavin Brown’s enterprise

AGAINST THE WIND CHAMPAGNE ON ICE A remarkable swell took place after the doors opened, and not just fare-goers making for the various courtesy bars. The powerful and glamorous A-list crowd amassed quickly, imbibed, and prepared to consume art. The mood was generally upbeat and optimistic, if not exactly replicating the feeding frenzy of the … Continued

This was an artcritical PIC in September 2009.