The strength of Williams’s new work lies in its transgression of aesthetic and, by extension, social and political lines, which are drawn more sharply in these fraught times.
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Daniel Hesidence’s Views of an Imaginary Landscape
Hesidence masterfully balances information and aesthetic pleasure to produce a joy that should not be taken lightly.
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You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors
Connors has arrived at a synthesis of what, up until now, has been a stylistically identifiable but rather diverse output.
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Life Time: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory
Poet Bernadette Mayer explores the intimate connections between photographic still lifes, color, emotions, and time.
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With a Wall of Photos, Bernadette Mayer Evokes a Landscape of Memories
Bernadette Mayer’s installation of a wall of images from 1971 is far too evocative of my own history for me to step back and see it “objectively.”
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Elizabeth Murray, Force of Nature
Elizabeth Murray’s work on paper is utterly free-form, a launchpad for a gamut of choices that rush from points A to Z with head-snapping speed.
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Trying (and Failing) to Make Painting Great Again
Here’s the thing about the Make Painting Great Again exhibition at Canada Gallery: I honestly dislike it.
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The Eerie Abandoned Dreams of Samara Golden
The current exhibition at Canada Gallery, A Fall of Corners by Samara Golden, leads the viewer up to the threshold and almost across into an enticing, dreamlike, and slightly askew dimension.
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Taking the Minimal Out of Minimalism: Robin Peck’s Abstract Skulls
There are nine lumps of plaster and Hydrocal — covered in yellowing shellac and polished wax — on display at CANADA on the Lower East Side, their domed tops roughly the size and shape of a human skull (hence the title of the exhibition, Crania).
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Why Are Art Openings on Thursday in NY and Saturday in LA?
LOS ANGELES — The rivalry between New York and Los Angeles runs deep: seasons vs. sunshine, pizza vs. tacos, Biggie vs. Tupac. For the art world, add to that list opening nights.
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A Supports/Surfaces Moment: Contradictions, Paradoxes and Other Ironies
For those who have been watching the critical misfortunes of Supports/Surfaces on the New York art scene over the years, it is a welcome surprise that, after decades of relative indifference, the movement finally seems to be getting some deserved attention.