Art
An Absurdist Play About Art-Making at Hauser & Wirth
In Asher Hartman's play Mr. Akita, artist and performer Cliff Hengst discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
Hauser & Wirth
Art
Jack Whitten’s Walls
Jack Whitten is the most relentless experimenter with materials in a generation of abstract artists who have yet to receive their due, perhaps because no one has come up with a catchy and marketable name for them, like the “Minimalists” or “The Pictures Generation.”
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
Art
Guston After Trump and Before Christmas
I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.
Art
In Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents
Over 170 caricatures of Richard Nixon offer an instructive precedent for artists struggling to overcome political and creative blocks in one leap.
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Eva Hesse: Diaries’
An artist’s fame may continue, or even grow, as the actual works on which it is nominally based are lost from sight.
Art
A Weighty Rashid Johnson Show that Doesn't Take Off
The dream embedded in the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” is rest — a cessation of struggle, labor, drudgery.
Art
The Open Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
LONDON — Every time Gonzalez-Torres’s work is exhibited, a critical opportunity arises.
Art
Soylent, a Donkey, and Even Some Good Art: A Frieze New York Diary
1pm: The press preview for Frieze New York 2016 on Randall's Island begins! Or so they say. I am power walking out the door of my office in Williamsburg.
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Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston’s “Thingness”
The idea of an abrupt transition between the abstract work and the late figuration has become so ingrained in the narrative of Guston’s career that a view suggesting a more gradual evolution might meet with resistance.
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Theater, Science, Music: The Expansive Art of Fausto Melotti
There are numerous points of beguilement throughout the show, beginning in the very first room off the street.
Art
Space, Containment, and the Realms of Existence: Berlinde De Bruyckere at Hauser & Wirth
The experience of De Bruyckere’s work is not unlike confronting monumental works of Minimalism, such as Richard Serra’s leaning or torqued sculptures, which create a sense of unease and endangerment within the gallery space.