Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / People in lockdown on account of a pervasive but invisible biological enemy might be perversely drawn to movies broadly about […]
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Piranesi and the anxiety of modernity
Contributed by Armin Kunz / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720�1778) created innumerable views of ancient and modern (that is, Baroque) Rome that together formed his monumental […]
Will Agnes Pelton Ever Get Her Due?
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Pause for a moment to pity the painter Agnes Pelton (1881–1961). While she was alive, she was mostly overlooked; after […]
Richard Rezac’s grand domesticity
Contributed by Rachel Youens / Richard Rezac, a Chicago-based sculptor, is having his first solo show at Luhring Augustine Chelsea. Rezac’s abstract sculptures are supra-sensual […]
Chris Domenick’s deceptively flat world
Contributed by Tony Bluestone / “Flat Moon,” Chris Domenick’s show of large framed works at Kate Werble Gallery, was the last exhibition I was able […]
Catalogue essay: Abstract Art Does Not Stop an Hour
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The works in Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age are, for all their reliance on what we call “technology,” […]
Carolyn Case: Build battle sink
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower� �William Blake Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / Carolyn Case […]
Robin Hill’s acts of unnaming
Contributed by Elizabeth Whalley / In a genre-defying practice, Robin Hill queries the nature of her sensory entanglements with the everyday world. Embracing a vast […]
Art and Film: Kelly Reichardt’s eye for grace
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the 1820s, not long after Lewis and Clark blazed the Oregon Trail, Otis “Cookie” Figowitz, a white orphan from […]
Selected paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2020
Contributed by Fay Sanders / In its ninth year, SPRING/BREAK continues its tradition of turning mundane office spaces into elaborate and vibrant venues for art. […]
Moira Dryer: Satisfyingly complete
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Moira Dryer (b. 1957; d. 1992) was among the first painters in the 1980s and �90s to reject minimalism and […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: March 2020
This week the art fairs settle into their New York cubicles. Galleries, of course, also have a robust slate of offerings, which might be a […]
Painting and the anti-Oedipal insurgency
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari � a French philosopher and a French psychoanalyst, respectively � published Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism […]
Art and Film: Dimitri de Clercq’s dark idyll
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Not every filmmaker can emulate Alfred Hitchcock and cue Chet Baker in a feature debut shot on a shoestring budget […]
Laurel Farrin�s comedy of errors
Contributed by Cody Tumblin / “Vaudeville,” Laurel Farrin�s solo show at Devening Projects in Chicago, contains an assortment of painted objects that each hold a […]
