“Josh Smith: Currents,” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY. Through March 14. (Note: The paintings look better as JPEGs than they do in the gallery.) Ken […]
Tag: NY Times
Another Yuskavage show in NYC
A few years ago in the NY Times, Ken Johnson wrote that Lisa Yuskavage’s paintings were sly, soft-porn fantasies of pneumatic women in hazes of […]
Munch: Navigating the messiness of his own present
The Munch exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Jay A. Clarke, brings together approximately 150 works, including 75 paintings and 75 works […]
Bonnard: Folding together form, color and feeling
Roberta Smith on Pierre Bonnard at the Met: “Working simultaneously on several unstretched canvases tacked directly to the wall, he painted largely from memory with […]
“Every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it”
“In the mid-1930s, as her writing career was just starting to take off, Eudora Welty thought she might become a photographer. As a junior publicity […]
Second thoughts: Archeology of Wonder at Real Art Ways in Hartford
RAW’s Director of Visual Arts, Kristina Newman-Scott’s first curatorial effort, “Archeology of Wonder,” aims to examine the way we use artifacts and art to approach […]
NY Times Art in Review: Tazeen Qayyum, John Wesley, Alexi Worth, Keltie Ferris, Trenton Doyle Hancock
“Tazeen Qayyum,” Aicon Gallery, New York, NY. Through Jan. 11. Karen Rosenberg: “Insects also figure in small paintings by Tazeen Qayyum, who renders cockroaches and […]
“In these scary times, investment in spiritual expansion may be the best investment of all”
In the NY Times Ken Johnson reports that “The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors” in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. “That may […]
Enrique Mart�nez Celaya: “Shiny paint makes me feel like I can�t breathe”
In the NY Times, Jori Finkel profiles Enrique Mart�nez Celaya, whose show recently opened in LA. “The questions he explores in painting (and in his […]
Eric Karpeles: Paintings in Proust
Randy Kennedy wrote in the NY Times that long before Marcel Proust died in 1922, his novel about art and memory, In Search of Lost […]
Gregory Amenoff: Radiant little pictures
In the NY Times Ken Johnson reviews Gregory Amenoff’s show at Alexandre. “In most of Mr. Amenoff�s easel-scale pictures, a large, mysterious form � botanical, […]
“Part of an artist�s job is to do something that hasn�t been done before, not something that has been done to death.”
In the NY Times, Roberta Smith writes that d�j� vu is an occupational hazard of art criticism. “You walk out of one gallery and into […]
Craig Kauffman on paper
Craig Kauffman, said to be one of the most prominent and influential artists to have come out of the Los Angeles art scene of the […]
Sean Landers: Anticipating the “pathological narcissism of the blogosphere”
Sean Landers is best known for his layered text paintings, which typically advertise his artistic triumphs and failures in tragicomic fashion. In his current installation, […]
New Orleans Biennial: 81 people running around with good ideas
In the NY Times Shaila Dewan reports on “Prospect.1,” the first New Orleans Biennial. Opening on November 1 and running for eleven weeks, the biennial […]
Beatriz Milhazes: Culture eats culture
In the NY Times, Carol Kino profiles Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes, who currently has a show at James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea. “Beatriz Milhazes clearly […]
Roberta and Elizabeth, BFF
In the NY Times Roberta Smith calls Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits girly. “By fits and starts, this exhibition reveals the complicated fusion of the personal, the […]
Mary Heilmann: Not such a dumb girl
Mary Heilmann’s exhhibition at Zwirner & Wirth features paintings and works on paper from the last three decades. Heilmann draws inspiration from her own experience, […]
NY TImes Art in Review: Loeb, Brown, Ackermann
“Damian Loeb: Synesthesia, Parataxic, Distortion, and the Shadow,” Acquavella, New York, NY. Through Oct. 7. Ken Johnson: “With its portentous Damien Hirst-like title, ‘Synesthesia, Parataxic […]
Why painters keep painting
In the NY Times Holland Cotter explains why Giorgio Morandi kept painting, even after his hands became shaky and his eyesight started to fail. “You […]
