Rather than parse the differences among us, Mike Cloud’s new paintings address the one experience we all have in common regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, […]
Tag: politics
William Powhida’s inquisition
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / For a while it looked as though William Powhida might be painting himself into an existential corner. His mission was to […]
Neue Galerie’s “degenerate” art and Babylon Berlin
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Neue Galerie?s compellingly incisive exhibition, titled ?Eclipse of the Sun: Art of the Weimar Republic? and anchored by Georg Grosz?s […]
Catalogue essay: Paul Pieroni on Peter Halley’s 1980s painting
The aim of this text, which was originally published as “Facts are Useless in Emergencies” in Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s The Catalogue Raisonne, […]
Art and Film: Argentina�s haunting precedent
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Argentina�s decade-long �dirty war� (1974�83) during which a right-wing military junta �disappeared� about 30,000 left-wing dissidents � that is, executed […]
Peter Krashes: Summer in the city
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Spending summer in the city means that each weekend, in neighborhoods far and near, street traffic is rerouted to make way for lively […]
Bj�rn Meyer-Ebrecht: Spontaneity rising
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Contemplating Gerrit Rietveld�s furniture, especially the pieces he made from crates, Bj�rn Meyer-Ebrecht realized that utilitarian furniture can be sculpture, […]
Farley Aguilar�s screamingly urgent figurative paintings
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Farley Aguilar�s paintings, on view at Lyles & King, are based on vintage photographs of 1920s and �30s seaside beauty […]
Carter Ratcliff: Art in the age of Trump
Contributed by Carter Ratcliff / Let�s begin with a painting�not sure it�s a work of art�that could have been painted only now, during Trump�s presidency. This […]
Warhol at the Whitney: A provocateur for all seasons
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / There are certainly strong generational reasons for the Whitney to mount “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” its […]
The Great War and Modernism
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The First World War — known as the Great War before it became necessary to number them – is one […]
Exhibition essay: Sarah Sentilles on Nancy Bowen at Kentler International Drawing Space
Contributed by Sarah Sentilles / Nancy Bowen calls herself an “artistic archaeologist,” and in her exhibition “For Each Ecstatic Instant,” you can see the fragments […]
Alex Kwartler: Tenuous survivalism
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In �Snowflake,� Alex Kwartler�s recent show at Magenta Plains, small-scale paintings captured the desultory emotional tenor of 2017. Compared with […]
Laura Blacklow on painterly photo processes
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On the occasion of the Association of International Photography Dealers (AIPAD) sponsored Photography Show that is taking place on Pier 94 in NYC this […]
Presidents’ Day video: The unveiling of the official Obama portraits
In this video, watch the unveiling of the magnificent portraits of President Obama and the former First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery. […]
