Latiff Mohidin Celebrates 73rd Birthday with Two Exhibitions
As he turned 73 on Aug 20, Malaysia’s foremost painter Abdul Latiff Mohidin was showing no sign of easing up on his work. On that day, the frail and soft-spoken artist was opening “Latiff in Singapore”...
View ArticleReview: Dorothea Tanning's "Web of Dreams" in London
LONDON — As every good student of psychoanalysis will tell you, Freud knew that a certain region of each dream lay beyond interpretation. He called this part “the dream’s navel, the spot where it...
View Article"Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage" to Open at NYHS
Annie Leibovitz, one of America’s best-known living portrait photographers, is exhibiting a series of works that, intriguingly, contain no people in them.The New York Historical Society is mounting...
View ArticleDealer's Notebook: Jack Shainman
NAME: Jack ShainmanAGE: 50 HAILS FROM: Williamstown, MassachusettsPRESIDES OVER: Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street and 524 West 24th Street, New York, NY; and 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook,...
View ArticleContrary to What You May Have Heard, Darja Bajagic Is Not Crazy
It turns out that it’s not always easy to transform overnight from an ultra-minimalist painter into something entirely different — say, a Conceptual artist with a penchant for mixing layered,...
View ArticleDan Colen Believes in Miracles
Dan Colen is feeling good. The nine large-scale canvases in “Miracle Paintings,” on view at Gagosian Gallery in New York through October 18 — all roughly based on semi-abstract stills from the 1940...
View ArticleBrie Ruais Gets Physical With Her Material
Brie Ruais has a practice animated by action verbs: kicking, cutting, folding, cinching, stretching, pushing, pleating. Her ceramic sculptures bear countless finger and footprints, the tangible result...
View ArticlePresence in Absence: Annette Messager Survey at MCA, Sydney
The Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA) impressive Annette Messager retrospective exhibition, “Annette Messager: motion / emotion,” which is on show until October 26, 2014, testifies to the...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Johannes VanDerBeek, Monika Sosnowska, and More
Johannes VanDerBeek at Zach Feuer Gallery, through October 4 (548 West 22nd Street)Foregoing canvas for gouged-and-painted slabs of Aqua-Resin, VanDerBeek creates funky, upbeat swarms of form and color...
View ArticleVIDEO: In the Studio With José Parlá
NEW YORK — September is a big month for José Parlá. The Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist is working to complete an expansive mural that will hang in One World Trade Center, and he’s staging his second...
View ArticleDespina Stokou Paints With Wit (And Data)
Many artists take a private language and make it public; the personal, however coded or obscured, becomes aesthetic. Such is the case with Los Angeles-based Greek artist Despina Stokou’s latest show at...
View ArticleVictorian Porn-Poem Inspires Mary Reid Kelley
In Mary Reid Kelley’s latest exhibition at Pilar Corrias in London, a highbrow dirty poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the fodder for a saucily comic video. Handmade costumes add...
View ArticleIntroducing Gamaliel Rodriguez
“They’re places that don’t exist,” says Gamaliel Rodriguez of the shadowy structures he renders in monochrome ballpoint, sharpie, and acrylic. “I just invented them, and kind of created my own world.”...
View ArticleOn the Road in the “Wild West” World Of U.S. Marshals
This November, powerHouse will publish “U.S. Marshals,” a book of photographs taken by Brian Finke as he infiltrated the world of the titular law enforcement agents. These images — which are, as the...
View Article"What Nerve!": A Shadow History of American Art
Edited by Dan Nadel, who also curated the accompanying exhibition at Rhode Island School of Design, What Nerve! is a book-length survey of four unconventional American art scenes, spanning from the...
View ArticleAmerican History Gets the Mike Kelley Treatment
It begins with a somber-seeming wall text and ends with a countrified punk dissolving his grandmother in lye. If you’re looking for highbrow and refined, this is not it: Mike Kelley’s “Reconstructed...
View ArticleVIDEO: Matthew Ritchie's 10 Possible Links
Matthew Ritchie’s “Ten Possible Links” at Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea features paintings, a wall drawing, a sculpture, and a film. Ritchie works with diagrams inspired by the work of philosopher...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Kristen Schiele, Jason Rhoades, and More
Kristen Schiele at Lu Magnus Gallery, through October 12 (55 Hester Street)“It feels as modular and free as I can make it — lots of details, color, and textures,” says Kristen Schiele of the paintings,...
View ArticleEddie Martinez Edges Toward Abstraction
After “Matador,” a 2013 exhibition at the Journal Gallery in Brooklyn, Eddie Martinez sort of hated paint. “I had a negative reaction, I got really turned off by it,” said the artist, who found himself...
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