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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


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


Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012. Photo (c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 1985

Feared and Fearless: Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012


with additional comments by William King, Alex Katz and Vivian Tsao


Thornton Dial, Untitled, c. 2003. Mixed Media, 48 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Allegra Laviola Gallery

From Rags to… Found Boots, Gloves and Soda Cans: The Richness of Thornton Dial


Dispatch from New Orleans while work also on view at Allegra Laviola Gallery


Yinka Shonibare MBE, Addio del Passato Film Still 1, 2011. Digital chromogenic print, 27 x 36 inches. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Post-Colonial Mixologist


Dutch wax fabric, Lord Nelson’s death, La Traviata and sex toys, at James Cohan through March 24


George McNeil, Landscape Motif, 1968. Oil on panel, 13 x 16 1/8 inches. Courtesy of Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe.

Paintings You Can Jump On: George McNeil in the 1960s


He aspired to be “completely sensate” – spontaneous, but with long periods of revision


Lori Ellison, Untitled, 2011, gouache on wood panel, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of McKenzie Fine Art

Mesmerizing Claustrophobia: Drawings and Paintings by Lori Ellison


“Impossibly dense, emphatically wobbly, but geometric to the core.” At McKenzie Fine Art


Simone Jones, All That Is Solid, 2011. Four-screen 3D animation, run time: 12 minutes. Edition of 3

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Simone Jones at Ronald Feldman


A new writer at artcritical. The show took place in November/December.