Painting Pushes Its Limits
"Painting: Now and Forever, Part II," a group show occupying both the Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali galleries, refers back to a survey of contemporary painting (Part I) held a decade ago at Marks...
View ArticleWiley Conquers the 'World Stage'
When Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) began exhibiting his portraits of young African-American males some five years ago, they hit a cultural sweet spot, bringing a hip-hop swagger into the gallery, and...
View ArticleThe Twins of the Rec Room: Os Gemeos
Os Gemeos "the twins," in Portuguese is the nom de plume of the twin Brazilian artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo (b. 1974) of São Paulo, Brazil. Their work borrows the idioms of outsider and folk...
View Article'Retrospective': Been There, Sold That
'Retrospective," a group show at Gagosian's 21st Street gallery, is like a summer concert festival with some very promising, big-name acts. Its organizing principle, the ways a major artist looks back...
View ArticleThree Artists Do It Themselves
One corporate-style production-line aesthetics inaugurated by Andy Warhol (and celebrated by artists from Damien Hirst to Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons) has been the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) reaction to...
View ArticleThe National Academy Museum's Grab-Bag Anthology
With the work of 130 artists on display, "The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art" at the National Academy Museum is a bit of a grab bag. As compared with previous...
View ArticleA Commitment to Color
The foundation myth of Color Field painting goes something like this: In 1953, two Washington, D.C.-based artists, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, paid a visit to the New York studio of Helen...
View ArticleRobert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
I remember well the first time I saw Robert Rauschenberg, who died yesterday at age 82. It was at a Whitney Museum opening in the early 1990s, and the artist, whom I did not meet, stood in the...
View ArticleAmy Bessone's Artificial Appeal
Amy Bessone paints figurines as if they were human beings. This might seem a simple and potentially static approach, yet the 12 large oils in the Los Angeles-based artist's first New York solo show,...
View Article'Double Album' at the New Museum
Walter Pater asserted in the 19th century that all art constantly aspires to the condition of music. Today's contemporary artists, however, seem mainly to aspire to talk about music in the...
View ArticleIn Brilliant Color
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) tends to focus on the simplest things, the most elemental phenomena. Wander through his room-size installations and you'll find yourself largely alone...
View ArticleWords of Wisdom and Wit
The criteria shaping "Lots of Things Like This," a new exhibition at apexart curated by the author Dave Eggers, are as simple and deadpan as its title. Mr. Eggers sought work containing an image, some...
View ArticleOnscreen Angst, Straight From the '60s
With "Because of Him," their new exhibition at Cheim & Read, the collaborative duo McDermott & McGough have finally arrived in the 1960s. About a quarter-century ago, David McDermott (b. 1952)...
View ArticleFigure and Ground
The British artist Katy Moran (b. 1975) employs a palette out of Turner, brushstrokes borrowed from de Kooning, and the press release of a lesser Gerhard Richter or some other conceptual painter. Yet...
View ArticleIn Keeping With Warhol
When it opened in 1980 at the Jewish Museum after first showing at a Jewish community center in Rockville, Md., and at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami Andy Warhol's exhibition "Ten...
View ArticleRainbow Coalition
"Color Chart," a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is an exhibition so simple and right in its conception that one marvels at the fact that it hasn't been done before. The show gathers work...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Museum?
The final phase of the New Museum's inaugural exhibition, "Unmonumental," is largely devoted to work that challenges the traditional definition of what constitutes a museum. "The Sound of Things:...
View ArticleJohn Chamberlain's Heavy Metal
The five large pieces in his new show at PaceWildenstein Gallery suggest that the sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), now in his 81st year, has lost none of the playfulness and verve that have long...
View ArticleDislocating Dreams
Luis Gispert (b. 1972) is a Miami-based artist whose considerable talents have earned him a show, called "El Mundo Es Tuyo (The World Is Yours)," that occupies two prestigious galleries. "Smother," a...
View ArticleBefore the Buildings
Architectural drawings and models do not easily inhabit gallery spaces. The reach of three dimensions and the impact of size seem so crucial to creating the drama of architecture that buildings in...
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