December 2009
posted 12/30/2009
JOE FYFE on Helmut Federle at Peter Blum |
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Federle's attempt to create an atmosphere of spiritual mimesis is fairly unique in current abstract painting
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posted 12/30/2009
DAVID BRODY on Eric Fischl at Mary Boone |
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By all rights these life-and-death-size duels in the sun between bullfighters and bulls should be awful, stripped of the mystery and mediation that until now had been the artist’s stock-in-trade
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posted 12/30/2009
STEPHANIE BUHMANN on Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman |
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Austere, calming, provocative, aggressive, confronting, soothing, luring, denying - these are some of the adjectives that can be applied to Richter's new paintings
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posted 12/28/2009
JONATHAN GOODMAN on Carroll Dunham at Gladstone |
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Carroll Dunham’s rough canvases, tilting toward aggressive sexual assertion and actions of near anarchy, are catchy tunes of hipster malice.
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posted 12/27/2009
ILKA SCOBIE on Denyse Thomasos at Lennon, Weinberg |
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Thomasos's vigorously contemporary abstraction is constructed upon imaginary metropolitan grids in which subterranean cages rise to skyscraper scale and architectural renderings blur into infinite space
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posted 12/23/2009
DEVEN GOLDEN on Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 |
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Sleigh took a proto-feminist approach to spatial representation that was, and sometimes still is, confused with a naïve technique.
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Dispatches: Report from Miami
A.A.RUCCI on Art Basel and the Satellite fairs in Miami last week
Tribute
DUNCAN HANNAH remembers Richard Merkin
The Review Panel
October 2009
Bill Berkson, Bridget Goodbody and Robert C Morgan joined David Cohen to review exhibitions of Vincent Fecteau, Alex Katz, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Yigal Ozeri
Alex Katz
Book Review
DAVID CARRIER on Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso from Alfred A. Knopf
Book Review
ERIC GELBER on Towards an Immersive Intelligence by Joseph Nechvatal from Edgewise Press |
