February 2010
posted 2/6//2010
Dispatches: Report from Harare
by VALERIE KABOV

In a Catch-22, artists cannot sell their work, but they also cannot afford to “waste” materials on work that is not for sale.
Book Review posted 2/4/2010
Patrick Ireland/Brian O'Doherty: Between Categories, reviewed by David Carrier

“His ambition,” Moore-McCann concludes, “is nothing less than a transformation of thinking, looking beyond material objects to underlying systems of belief”
Tribute to Clare Weiss, determined and enterprising champion of art in public places

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posted 2/24//2010
DAVID BRODY on Charles Steffen at Andrew Edlin |
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Stylistic textures are revealed to be unselfconscious tics without which Steffen cannot construct flesh
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posted 2/18//2010
STEPHEN MAINE on Paul Corio at 210 Gallery |
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Corio brings a hard-earned sense of humor and mischief to abstraction rooted in the phenomenology of optical sensation, a branch of contemporary art not exactly known for big laughs.
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posted 2/7//2010
CHRISTINA KEE on Josh Smith at Deitch Studios |
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The best works are vibrant and fun, and show the chops of a painter who takes delight in straightforward, rambunctious picture making.
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posted 2/7//2010
ILKA SCOBIE on Man Ray at the Jewish Museum |
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Transgressive, experimental, fiercely individualistic, Man Ray evaded any categories not of his own creation.
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posted 2/7//2010
ROBERT C. MORGAN on Zhang Huan at PaceWildenstein |
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With Zhang's Rulai one senses the conflicting elements of life and death within the gray ash
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posted 2/2//2010
KAREN GOVER on Erick Johnson at Heskin Contemporary |
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Once the complexity of the paintings’ under-layers have revealed themselves, we are in a position to appreciate the way in which these paintings offer up to us a visual metaphor of their own making.
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