VIDEO: Founding Director on Singapore's Centre for Contemporary Art
SINGAPORE — Gillman Barracks is a cluster of army barracks set up in 1936, which have been converted into galleries set in lush greenery in the south tip of Singapore.This art destination, jointly...
View ArticleREVIEW: Wael Shawky at London's Serpentine Galleries
LONDON — History is an increasingly common subject in contemporary art, though for the most part artists usually explore events that are marginal, local, or somehow esoteric. Wael Shawky, though, goes...
View ArticleReviews In Brief: 6 New York Gallery Shows to See This Month
Christian Bonnefoi and Ana CardosoLonghouse Projects285 Spring StreetThrough February 28Two generations come together in “The Other Side and In Between,” for which Cardoso invited Bonnefoi, a French...
View ArticleVIDEO: Hassan Hajjaj And His Biker "‘Kesh Angels" At Taymour Grahne
Hassan Hajjaj projects the power of consumer branding and biker culture in Marrakesh onto his vibrant photographic installations.Hajjaj’s first solo exhibition at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York...
View ArticleReview: “Savage Palms, Worn Stones, Moonshine Vision” in Minneapolis
“Savage Palms, Worn Stones, Moonshine Vision,” at Minneapolis’s Midway Contemporary Art through February 15, is as transcendent and disparate as its title. Julia Rometti and Victor Costales’s...
View Article"The Sickest of All Collectors": What Sets Dealer Alexander Acevedo Apart
AGE: 69HAILS FROM: New YorkPRESIDES OVER: Alexander Gallery, 1020 Madison Avenue, New YorkGALLERY’S SPECIALTY: 18th- and 19th-century American paintings, Old Masters and European works of art, Asian...
View ArticleHow Little Is Enough? Martin Creed Takes Minimalism to the Edge
LONDON — It is easy neither to get in nor out of Martin Creed’s exhibition “What’s the Point of It?” at the Hayward Gallery here (through April 27). To enter you have to pass under a notice warning...
View ArticleReview: Annie Lapin's "Various Peep Shows" at Honor Fraser
LOS ANGELES—The new paintings in Annie Lapin’s “Various Peep Shows” at Honor Fraser (January 11-February 22) look like marred photographs, and viewing these eight oil and acrylic enamel spray-paint...
View ArticleReview: Wade Guyton's Quiet Confidence at Petzel
NEW YORK—Perhaps the most provocative thing about Wade Guyton’s exhibition at Petzel (January 16-February 22, 2014)—his first solo here in seven years—is how profoundly uninteresting it seems to be at...
View ArticleReview: Brendan Carroll's Playful Abstractions at Atlanta's Poem 88
ATLANTA—From Roy Lichtenstein to James Nares, artists have long fetishized the brushstroke. Atlanta-based Carroll joins that group with medium-size canvases made in 2012 and 2013, at Poem 88 January...
View ArticleVIDEO: Hauser & Wirth “Re-View” The Legendary Onnasch Collection
Hauser & Wirth celebrates one of the first German art gallerists in New York, Reinhard Onnasch, with a massive exhibit of his legendary collection from the 1950s thorough the 70s, when Pop Art,...
View Article“Macho Man, Tell It to My Heart”: Julie Ault's Tender Narrative
In 1981 Thomas Lawson noted in a review of Group Material’s exhibition “The People’s Choice” that “the value of these artifacts lay precisely in their sentimentality, a quality that is absent from most...
View ArticleVIDEO: Robert Yasuda Carves a Luminous Frame at Sundaram Tagore
Robert Yasuda never sticks to convention. Since the 1970s, the Hawaiian-born painter rejected the notion of a frame surrounding art being purely functional or decorative. Instead, he created his own...
View ArticleHands-On: Molly Lowe’s All-Too-Human Creations
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Double Dare and pupu platters,” Molly Lowe admits, circling the custom-built stage for her performance Hands Off. The New York–based artist describes herself as both...
View ArticleDzine Explores Puerto Rican Culture in Two Shows
Salon 94 and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New YorkOpen January 29 through March 1A self-taught artist of Puerto Rican descent, Dzine—born Carlos Rolon—has been making waves with hybrid paintings and customized...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Hidden Face of Gustave Doré
A new exhibition on one of France’s most celebrated illustrators, Gustave Doré, at Paris’s Musée d'Orsay, billed as the first retrospective dedicated to the artist in 30 years, curiously features few...
View ArticleEmpathic Eye: David Bailey at the National Portrait Gallery
David Bailey believes in enigma; he is also, evidently, fascinated by stars. The two greatest models in his life, he is quoted as saying, are Jean Shrimpton and Kate Moss. “For some reason they just...
View ArticleReview: Alfred Leslie's Multi-Panel Mammoths at Hill Gallery
BIRMINGHAM, Michigan—Who knew pink could so restively bully other colors? In the quadrant Pink Square, 1957–60, the hue monopolizes an entire panel and intrudes upon the three others, overruling the...
View ArticleVIDEO: "Making Painting" at Turner Contemporary
LONDON — “You can’t get away form the landscape in both of these artists’ work,” says Sarah Martin, Head of Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary. “I think there is something very special really about...
View ArticleBig Ideas: The Pioneering Work of Richard Hamilton
A lyric by the 1960s group Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band proclaimed that jazz was “delicious hot, disgusting cold.” The work of the late Richard Hamilton was the other way around: it became less appetizing...
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