Dream Screen: Runa Islam at MoMA
By Gillian Sneed
14 March 2012
As the camera slowly pans to the right, it boldly swings up and loops down, revealing a tightly cropped view of a crumbling, weed infested wall and shattered window. The 16mm film, titled The house belongs to those who inhabit it (2008), by London-based artist Runa Islam depicts the process of “writing” with the camera. …Read More
Wolfgang Becker on Josef Mispelbaum
By Wolfgang Becker
12 January 2012
Wolfgang Becker, Founding Director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, Germany, examines the work of enigmatic artist Josef Mispelbaum. …Read More
Ai Weiwei Review by Jonathan Goodman
By Jonathan Goodman
7 January 2012
Critic Jonathan Goodman explores the artist-activism of Ai Wei Wei, whose bold, street photographs of New York City capture a period of tumult an change. …Read More
Cory Arcangel at Whitney
By Daniel Rothbart
6 January 2012
Cory Arcangel’s “Pro Tools”, an ambitious though uneven grand tour of consumer video games and other technology-generated or centered works of art. …Read More
Mark di Suvero
By Matthew Shen Goodman
5 January 2012
For an artist just shy of 80 years old, Mark di Suvero’s output is impressive both in scale and number. With their I-beams and knots of cut plates, these enormous rusted and red-painted steel structures have globally inundated cities and sculpture parks. …Read More
Marilyn Minter
By Matthew Shen Goodman
4 January 2012
“The only difference between what I’m doing and advertising is they have a product to sell,” Marilyn Minter said in a 2009 interview with Creative Time. “If I’m selling anything, it’s a vision of what goes wrong” …Read More
I Hate Paul Klee
By Wolfgang Becker
15 December 2011
Rainer Speck has assembled in Cologne unique archives of the works of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) and is, at the same time, an ambitious collector of contemporary art and a good friend of some artists like Cy Twombly and Sigmar Polke. …Read More
Rohini Devasher
By Deeksha Naath
New Delhi-based Rohini Devasher’s second solo exhibition Permutation on view at the Gallery Nature Morte bears testimony to her unique style, medium and subject matter in the landscape of contemporary Indian art. …Read More
Johannes Kahrs at Luhring Augustine
By Jonathan Goodman
14 December 2011
Johannes Kahrs is presenting a show of intensely physical paintings tinged with violence and sex. A painter of real skill, Kahrs works with images taken from a broad range of sources: magazines, newspapers, films, advertisements, and his own photographic archive. Using the pictures as the basis of his art, he then changes the image by removing or altering details. …Read More
Marjetica Potrc, In a New Land, Berlin
By Goran Tomcic
8 December 2011
Potrc’s work is intended to be educational for the viewer; each case study is a visual interpretation of the artist’s investigation of contemporary building strategies …Read More
Nan Goldin: Scopophilia
By Valery Oisteanu
7 December 2011
Critic, poet and artist Valery Oisteanu explores Scopophilia, Nan Goldin’s ambitious multimedia work commissioned by the Musée du Louvre. Scopophilia translates to “the love of looking” and contains more than 400 photographs culled from the artist’s life. …Read More
Anthony Caro
By Jonathan Goodman
Critic and poet Jonathan Goodman examines Anthony Caro’s sculpture on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Influenced by both Henry Moore and David Smith, Caro’s work synthesizes British and American sculpture to create a new language of light, space and forms. …Read More
Luisa Lambri at Luhring Augustine
By Jonathan Goodman
Certain Variables, the title of Italian photographers’, Luisa Lambri’s show, refers to those elements of change that transform the experience of the Southern California houses the artist takes images of. …Read More
Bill Cunningham New York
By Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Writer and curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld reviews Richard Press’s film on New York Times’ photographer, Bill Cunningham. …Read More
Ceal Floyer
By Cora Fisher
Floyer pushes starkly minimalist Chelsea white box gallery to the limit, placing but four installation elements into the large gallery. …Read More
John Perreault: Protests and Beauty
By Daniel Rothbart
6 December 2011
Honoré de Balzac poisoned his body with demitasse after nocturnal demitasse of coffee while Victor Hugo used coffee infusions to create delicate sepia tone drawings. …Read More
