Happy July 4th, Pride Weekend, and productive, restful summers to our readers

New York set to Frieze.

In the wake of Armory Week, The Review Panel tackles the Biennial

New and Noteworthy at artcritical and details of David Cohen’s lecture on Derain

The new season brings new features at artcritical: TIPS, in which staff and regulars augment our comprehensive listings with personal selections of shows about to open, and BOOKMARKED, in which a guest shares the the blogs and art sites that claim their browser time.

A welcome note to the “new issue” of artcritical is an exercise in drastic understatement this month, as the welcome is to a new look magazine.  The design overhaul of artcritical has been, indeed continues to be, an exciting and protracted endeavor.  We consider ourselves, in fact, to be still in our “beta” version.  We…