cover of the book under review
Saturday, January 27th, 2018

Wanting to Tell Stories: John Yau’s Wild Children

The occult gives way to novel approaches to what to notice in art.

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

Haptic Hallucinations: The “Suns” and “Wavy Rays” of Karen Arm

on view at P.P.O.W. through June 25

Philip Taaffe, Strata Nephrodium, 2014. Mixed media on canvas 54 x 67 7/8 inches. © Philip Taaffe; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Sunday, August 9th, 2015

Chic Set: Cornwall Artists at James Barron

A group show gathers artists who share a common geography, suggesting the possibility of a new art-historical movement.

Friday, October 31st, 2014

The Zombies: Contemporary Abstraction and Its Critics

Do the recent conversations about abstract painting miss the point?

Phillip Taaffe, Subsaxana, 2007. Mixed media on paper, 21 x 30 inches. images courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Monday, February 1st, 2010

Phillip Taaffe at Gagosian

Taaffe’s pure decorativeness nevertheless embraces, almost as fetish, the visible husks of signs.

Corban Walker, Runway, 2007, Diamante glass, 46 1/4 x 417 1/2 x 62 3/4 inches
Friday, February 16th, 2007

February 2007: David Grosz, Carol Kino, and Roberta Smith with moderator David Cohen

Gillian Carnegie at Andrea Rosen, Lisa Hoke at Elizabeth Harris, Josiah McElheny at Museum of Modern Art, Philip Taaffe at Gagaosian and Corban Walker at PaceWildenstein