John Yau

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The One and Only Jenny Snider

Snider easily qualifies for such categories as “neglected” and “overlooked,” but her work cannot be contained by these terms.

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The Parallel Worlds of Philip Guston and Saul Steinberg

Guston and Steinberg are unclassifiable figures who satirized political figures, artists, poseurs, and American consumerism.

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Mark Grotjahn Checks All the Boxes

One or two of the paintings in Grotjahn's latest show might be interesting to look at, but a giant gallery space full of them becomes overbearing and tedious.

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Richard Prince’s Dorky White Anger

These are works you do not scrutinize or reflect upon because there is really not much to examine, much less think about.

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Refusing Painting’s Obsolescence

My admiration for Stanely Whitney’s resoluteness has increased over the years, as well as my sense of his growing authority as a masterful colorist.

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Melissa Meyer’s Urban Vision

Meyer has turned Pollock’s all-over painting on its head.

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Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages

Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.

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Harriet Korman’s Formal Mastery

Being a torch carrier wasn't Korman's thing.

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The Last Testament of Michael Mazur

At the end of his life, Mazur wanted to evoke his passage into chaos, to compose his farewell.

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The Painter of Everyday Life

Stanley Lewis finds a way to step aside and let the world become paint.

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Reconsidering Identity in Art

This is the kind of group exhibition that rarely happens in New York — a gathering of artists from different countries, cultures, generations, and aesthetic approaches focused on the construction of identity.

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Jim Dine Breaks Out

Although Dine is considered a blue-chip artist (a rather ugly term, if you ask me), the New York art world has not been kind to him.