Joe Nanashe’s Minimalist Altar at “Leaps Into the Void”
Seven ladders, eight Casio keyboards, and a dozen or so blaring lights: not exactly consecrated materials for a quasi-religious experience. Yet it’s with these humble materials that Joe Nanashe has...
View ArticleKatie Paterson Takes the Very Long View
Scottish artist Katie Paterson, currently based in Berlin, recently initiated a project in Norway that won’t be finished for 100 years. Titled “Future Library,” the basic thrust of the work involves...
View ArticleSinging Mussels, Swimming Pools, and Airplants: This Is Sculpture
If you’re wondering what sculpture looks like today, just picture a painting submerged beneath the surface of a tiny swimming pool. Or a two-dimensional image of Yves Tanguy-esque biomorphic oddities...
View ArticleTony Matelli’s Bloody Good Fax In “Vintage Violence”
“Vintage Violence” at Monya Rowe Gallery involves a good number of guns. Some are pointed at people’s heads (Richard Bosman’s “Femme Fatale”); in other works, like a oil stick-and-lithograph on paper...
View ArticleDaniel Heidkamp Finds Greatness in Normalcy
“I don’t have to go to Tahiti, or depict some imaginary, Surrealistic craziness,” Daniel Heidkamp said of his en plein air painting philosophy. “I could go to Greenpoint, Brooklyn — looking at the...
View ArticleVIDEO: In the Studio with Will Ryman
NEW YORK — Perched a story about the Bowery in Manhattan’s Chinatown is Will Ryman’s studio. The 45-year-old artist uses the multi-room space to create then display his large-scale figurative...
View ArticleHauser & Wirth Has Your Multi-Generational Photography Weekend
New York’s Hauser & Wirth has a neat couplet of exhibitions opening in conjunction with each other, both examining the ways in which the boundaries of photography have been pushed (and chopped,...
View ArticleKatie Torn’s “Virtual Sculpture” Is Seductive, But Toxic
There’s a lot of gushing liquid in Katie Torn’s work, but since this is digital art we’re talking about, there’s no real danger of getting wet. There are also a number of disembodied heads, bobbing...
View ArticleBiopic: Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland shares the story behind a work in his retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery, on view through September 1.This is a new painting titled Better Living Through Windows. It is 16 feet...
View ArticleVIDEO: Jean-Philippe Delhomme Epitomizes Brooklyn at Wright
Paris-based illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme instills a touch of Brooklyn charm to his otherwise satirical and humorous portraits of the cosmopolitan good life. In his latest exhibition “From Late...
View ArticleWendy White Channels Soccer Fever, Almodóvar, and Madrid
What do churros, Salvador Dali logo design, Pedro Almodóvar, and 1980s Spanish soccer stars have in common? They’re all elements in “Madrid Me Mata,” the boisterous exhibition by Wendy White that...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows: "Displayed,""Purple States," and More
“Displayed,” at Anton Kern Gallery through August 22This exhibition spotlights work that incorporates “the languages of architecture, the museum, interior design, retail, and advertising.” It’s a...
View ArticleReview: "Purple States" at Andrew Edlin Gallery
Andrew Edlin Gallery’s current group exhibition, “Purple States” (through August 16), explores the still-controversial genre of outsider art, and stakes a claim for its practitioners that’s buoyed by...
View ArticleReview: Ryan Lauderdale and Jessica Sanders at Kansas
Ryan Lauderdale and Jessica Sanders, the two Brooklyn artists on view at Kansas (through August 2) in New York this summer, pair their recent works and reach the ends of the instant-gratification...
View ArticleTom Friedman at Luhring Augustine Bushwick
Luhring Augustine gallery’s Bushwick location is a destination. An artistic mansion in the realm of the neighborhood’s many creative shacks, it provides a site for contemplation, which is why the...
View ArticleCurator Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani on Anthropos New York
Come September, Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York will present a large-scale exhibition of artworks by 12 artists from Thailand and Singapore spread over its two locations: Chelsea and Madison...
View ArticleReview: Rashid Johnson's "Magic Numbers"
“Magic Numbers,” which takes up three floors at the George Economou Collection in Athens (through August 28), makes for a rhythmic, tuneful show. In the center of a large mirror piece, Rashid Johnson’s...
View ArticleVIDEO: Revisiting a Palette of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler at Perrotin
NEW YORK — After two decades, Galerie Perrotin is revisiting the iconic works by social interventionist duo, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. The couple began their collaboration in the late 70s, which...
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