The first time I saw Judith Scott’s work was in Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective, A Cosmos, at the New Museum.
Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Books and her second collection, The Glimmering Room, was published by Four Way Books in 2012. Her third collection, Wunderkammer, is forthcoming in 2014. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Copy Makes Perfect: Sturtevant at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art’s current retrospective of Sturtevant’s work, Double Trouble, is a study in movement.
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Order and Disorder in Albert Oehlen’s Fabric Paintings
Albert Oehlen’s current show at Skarstedt, a selection of 14 “fabric paintings” made between 1992–96, is explosive. Explosive as in a burst or the arrival of a fiery red comet on earth.
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Silence Is Enough: On Emily Jacir
Silenced, erased, censored — how then to represent this loss, this nothingness?
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The Guile of Wols and Charline von Heyl
WALTHAM, Mass. — At the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the art historian Katy Siegel has curated an exhibition titled The Matter that Surrounds Us, a group show of Wols and Charline von Heyl.
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Cady Noland and Diane Arbus Make a Picnic Out of You
The current show at Gagosian, Portraits of America: Diane Arbus/Cady Noland is in a small gallery reachable only by walking into and through the Gagosian’s Upper East Side gift shop. In order to see the exhibition, to enter the gallery, one must first pass through this physical barrier.
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Sarah Cain’s Girl Power Paintings
Walking into Sarah Cain’s current show, Burning Bush, at Gallerie Lelong is to be restored.
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Isa Genzken’s Strange Contraptions for Transformation
The reason we feel great pleasure when gazing at Genzken’s sculptures is because they, or rather she, gives us the experience of seeing the world as if for the time. She returns us to our infant selves.
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Context and Silence: On the Art Writings of Eva Hesse and Cady Noland
How important is it to control one’s image, to have mastery over one’s oeuvre? As a female artist, to allow one’s life and work to merge is risky. It is a softness.
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Balthus’s Androgynous Dreams
When we talk about Balthus what we talk about are perversities: a grown man painting erotically charged portraits of Lolita-like young girls with their skirts flapped up like flowers.
