Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Two new films concern edgy women of the New York art scene: Lisa Immordino Vreeland�s Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict and […]
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Sense and sensibility at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Though skewed towards this century, the paintings in Lennon Weinberg�s elegantly expansive group show �A Few Days,� from all twenty […]
Art and Film: Painter-Spy in Bridge of Spies
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Bridge of Spies begins and ends with a painting. Steven Spielberg�s latest film is a penetrating and affecting consideration of […]
Anne Neukamp�s elegant nostalgia
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Painters who accept the challenge of trying to assimilate the advance of technology and metamorphosis of visual culture to the […]
Art and Film: Alex Ross Perry�s little tyrant artist
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Alex Ross Perry�s gothic, resolutely arthouse chamber piece Queen of Earth is a fascinating study in the ominous subtext of […]
Stern verve: Joseph Zito at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The artist’s weight in ominous lead slabs, a combat helmet spilling with rose petals — in another artist’s hands these conceptual pieces would probably seem trite or overbearing. But Joseph Zito’s unerringly fine calibrations of irony combined with his formidable technical range and astutely Gober-esque deployment of different materials — all on full display in installations cagily concatenated for a thirty-year retrospective at Lennon Weinberg in Chelsea — enables him to steamroller cliche and proceed directly to cool-eyed poignancy.
Art and Film: Jem Cohen�s faith in art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / New York independent filmmaker Jem Cohen�s laconically moving Counting is quintessentially an artist�s movie. It is divided into fifteen segments, […]
Revitalization by contamination: OBJECT’hood at Lesley Heller
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The premise of “OBJECT’hood,” a group exhibition at Lesley Heller Workspace curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, is that […]
Warp and weft: The grid at Mixed Greens
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Mixed Greens� enterprising group exhibition “Common Thread,” on view through August 28, positions a 1973 Bauhaus grid study by Anni […]
Ruth Root�s deep integration
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Ruth Root�s seven striking shaped canvases, on display at Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea and all untitled, might recall Elizabeth […]
Seeing black at Brian Morris
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Cuts Noon Light,� the challenging three-person exhibition at Brian Morris Gallery on Chrystie Street, gets its title from a Pablo […]
Elizabeth Kley and Conrad Ventur: Improbable harmony at Regina Rex
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / A two-person exhibition involving a couple of clearly kindred artists stands a good chance of being demurely satisfying on account […]
Serious drollery at Asya Geisberg
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Summer group shows are notorious for their looseness, but in �Character Traits� Matthew Craven has managed to curate one at […]
And Many More: PAFA presents at 33 Orchard
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / MFA exhibitions are notoriously hit-or-miss, not least because it�s difficult to pull together a group show from graduates who may […]
A randomly selective Bushwick Open Studios crawl, 2015
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Bushwick has become such a fertile and active art community that it can be hard to distinguish extraordinary happenings from […]
