Criticism
 
Mary Lucier, Wisconsin Arc, 2009-2013, Single-channel video installation. Color. Sound. 26:00 (installation view). Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
closing this weekend at Lennon, Weinberg ...
 
Gabriel Orozco, Island Within an Island, 1993. Silver dye bleach print, 16 x 20 inches, Edition of 5. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, © 2009 Gabriel Orozco.
On view through May 26 ...
 
Marina Adams, Spin, 2010. Acrylic on Linen, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery
Quietly audacious abstract paintings on the Lower East Side ...
 


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The External Feminine: Chantal Joffe at Cheim & Read


The British painter’s portraits of women are on view through June 22


Domenico Gnoli, What is a Monster? Snail on Sofa, 1967. Tempera, acrylic, and ink on carton, 17-1/3 x 24 inches. Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober Collection, Mallorca, Spain

Sly Sexuality and Rigorous Tailoring: Late Paintings of Domenico Gnoli


Antidote to Arte Povera: His work from the 1960s at Luxemboug & Dayan


Katherine Bradford, Superman Responds, 2011. Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches. Courtesy of Edward Thorp Gallery

A New Hero: Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp


Superman and ocean liners are the stars of this show, extended through June 9


Trisha Baga, Plymouth Rock, 2012. 2 channel video, projected from memory cards, mixed media: acrylic on canvas (3), spray paint on CD player, foil, bubbled-wrapped plinth, box of electrical wires, spray paint and acrylic on phone, water bottle, 27:12 mins. Courtesy of Vilma Gold, London

Over Here: Three Americans in London, Testing the Boundaries between Object and Subject


William Corwin at George and Jørgen, Pascual Sisto at Seventeen, Trisha Baga at Vilma Gold


Dan Flavin, proposals for (in memory of “Sandy” Calder), 1977. Graphite pencil and colored pencil on graph paper, 17 x 21 7/8 inches Collection of Stephen Flavin (c) 2012 Stephen Flavin/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Graham S. Haber, 2011

A Radical’s Romantic Side: Dan Flavin’s Drawings at the Morgan


A different, private side of the minimalist artist


Carol Szymanski, Ceci n'est pas un Kosuth, 2012. Blue fluorescent light, approx. 34 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Guided By Invoices

How Capitalism Functions: Carol Syzmanski at Guided by Invoices


“this marvelously suggestive mini-retrospective” is up through May 26


Marc Ganzglass, Shear Pin, 2010. ?Steel shear pin, nickel plated, magnet, 4-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth

Of Scientific Pinterest: “Science on the Back End” at Hauser & Wirth


A group show curated by Matthew Day Jackson, until June 16


Brice Marden, Joined, 2011. Oil and graphite on marble, 26 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery

Eastern Promise: Brice Marden at Matthew Marks


Renewing his engagement with Chinese art, his own is richly rewarded


Installation shot of work by David Humphrey in the exhibition under review

Meth Lab of the Modern Psyche: Dr. Freud’s Consulting Room


In this Long Island University exhibition, artists run amok with the idea of Bergstrasse 19


Excerpt from "Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel. Copyright © 2012 by Alison Bechdel. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

“I can’t help you. You’re on your own”: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir


Are Your My Mother? is the much-awaited sequel to Fun Home