Roberta Smith on Marlene Dumas: “The consistency of this show suggests an artist who settled too early into a style that needs further development. Stasis […]
Tag: Ariella Budick
Julia Jacquette: “I’m a sucker for house porn”
Ariella Budick reports that Jacquette bases her virtuosically executed paintings on photographs from glossy shelter magazines. “Chandeliers glitter, massive gilt mirrors festoon palatial bathrooms and […]
Proto-Bohemian Gustave Courbet arrives at the Metropolitan
Courbet would be glad to know that everyone’s still talking about him. In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith writes that Courbet only grudgingly accepted the title […]
Yvonne Jacquette: night owl
“Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY. Through May 4. For 30 years, Yvonne […]
Joan Linder: sloppy spontaneity meets obsessive precision
“Of Bodies and Buildings: Drawings by Joan Linder,” Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY. Through Dec. 9. Check out Linder’s website. “In culture hyper-saturated […]
Kara Walker’s racy cutouts arrive at the Whitney
“Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love,” organized by Philippe Vergne and Yasmil Raymond, both from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. […]
Samira Abbassay: mythology as autobiography
“Samira Abbassy: Cultural Convergences,” Anthony Giordano Gallery at Downing College, Oakdale, NY. Through Oct. 14. Ancient tales from Greek mythology, the Bible and the Quran […]
Wrangling over Rudolf Stingel
Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice: �Zigzagging between figuration and abstraction, his disparate oeuvre is filled with conceptual antics, optical pleasures, and abject traces of […]
