PinPoint: On George Tsatsos by Agora Gallery
The complex and brilliantly colored paintings of George Tsatsos are currently being featured for the second time at Agora Gallery from October 10th to October 30th, 2014. A former captain of industry...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in London During Frieze Week
Cerith Wyn Evans at Serpentine Gallery, through November 9 (Kensington Gardens)The Welsh artist takes over the Serpentine’s Sackler Gallery, creating a spare but transfixing environment of neon,...
View ArticleEdgar Arceneaux's History at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
In 1964, the FBI sent a threatening letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, MLK Jr. delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, in which he decried the United States’ involvement in the...
View ArticleSeldom-Seen Intellectual Sensualism: James Bishop at David Zwirner
Along with the painters Ray Parker, Ralph Humphrey, Ron Gorchov, Darby Bannard, and John McLaughlin, James Bishop is a seldom-seen artist’s artist of the 1960s and ’70s generation. In that period, he...
View ArticleCornelia Thomsen's Dizzying Abstract Works Debut at Leslie Feely
For sheer optical impact generated by an abstract painting, Barnett Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950–51, is hard to beat. Photographs fail to capture the buzzing sensation behind one’s eyeballs...
View ArticlePinPoint: On Marsden Hartley at LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913-1915 through November 30, 2014. This is the first focused look and the first solo exhibition on the West...
View ArticleJoan Jonas’s “Light Time Tales” at HangarBicocca
At age 78, Joan Jonas is having a banner year. Earlier this month, the innovative video and performance artist opened a wide-ranging survey, “Light Time Tales,” on view through February 1 at Milan’s...
View Article6 Must-See Gallery Shows in Brussels
You really don’t need to sleep: post-Frieze and pre-FIAC, why not ride the high-speed Eurostar to Brussels and take in these exhibitions?Mark Leckey at WIELS, through January 1, 2015, Av. Van...
View ArticleHugh Scott-Douglas Takes on Amazon.com at Jessica Silverman Gallery
Jessica Silverman Gallery’s location in the Tenderloin district, an area known for its resistance of gentrification and general seediness, provides a compelling backdrop for Hugh Scott-Douglas’s...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, and More
Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe at Marlborough Chelsea, through November 29 (545 West 25th Street)Certain exhibitions get called “immersive” because there’s some wall-painting and fancy lighting. But...
View ArticleSee Highlights From “Louise Bourgeois: Suspension” at Cheim & Read
Opening October 30 at Cheim & Read, “Louise Bourgeois: Suspension” places a particular focus on the work of the late French-American sculptor — namely, as the title suggests, her works that feature...
View ArticleScrambled Order: Saint Clair Cemin’s “Myth and Math” at Paul Kasmin
“Myth and Math,” the pleasantly alliterative title of the Saint Clair Cemin show that opened Thursday at Paul Kasmin, lays plain the duality of symbolism versus the mechanics of sheer construction in...
View ArticleSea Creatures and Disarming Encounters: Wangechi Mutu at Victoria Miro
The dugong is East Africa’s version of a manatee: a gentle, herbivorous, sea-dwelling mammal. Thanks to hunting and environmental damage, it’s slowly going extinct. “They’re extremely friendly,”...
View ArticleTracey Moffatt’s Spirited Mediums at GOMA, Brisbane
Sydney and New York-based artist Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most internationally successful artists. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is held in major collections including...
View ArticleThe Many Worlds of Susan Te Kahurangi King
New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King uses simple means — colored pencil, sheets and shards of paper — to explore her own unique, layered universe. It’s a place in which deconstructed Donald Ducks...
View ArticlePinPoint: On Castellani, Judd and Stella by Dominique Lévy Gallery
Dominique Lévy Gallery is pleased to announce a transatlantic exhibition that captures a fleeting but profound moment of creative intersection in the careers of three exalted Post-war artists. Local...
View Article15 Questions with Jedd Novatt
Age: 56Profession: SculptorNeighbourhood: Near le Louvre in Paris’s 7th, but my main studio now is near Bilbao, in the mountainsAmerican artist Jedd Novatt, whose works stand proudly next to...
View ArticlePinPoint: On Anna Rita Alatan by Agora Gallery
At once dynamic and serene, the paintings of Anna Rita Alatan elegantly transform imagined worlds into visual reality. ARA, as Alatan is also known, discovered painting while studying fashion at...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Gabriele Beveridge, Christopher...
Christopher Williams at David Zwirner Gallery, through December 20 (529 West 19th Street)Fresh on the heels of his excellent MoMA retrospective, the American-born, German-based conceptual photographer...
View ArticleSplintered Fields, New Dimension: Ahmed Alsoudani at Gladstone Gallery
“This painting isn’t working,” says Ahmed Alsoudani, equal parts melodramatic and mischievous. “It’s like a newborn baby — but it’s dead. It’s not going to go anywhere. I like to keep a painting around...
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