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On View Now | From Ritual to Romance: The Photography of Maxwell Snow
Maxwell Snow, "Untitled," 2011. Photograph. Courtesy Maxwell Snow. In Black Magic at Serieuze Zaken Studioos in Amsterdam, New York-based photographer Max Snow continues to pursue themes that have...
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On View Now | An East Wind Swirls in Chelsea, Lately.
Ashley Bickerton, "TITNW7" (detail), 2010-2011. Acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery. In his recent show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, Ashley...
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On View Now | Back to the Future: Xu Bing, “The Living Word,” and the Legacy...
Xu Bing, "The Living Word," 2001 (partial installation view). Cut and painted acrylic. Courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum. Perhaps the most seminal and certainly the most seismic moment in the...
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On View Now | Marlboro Men: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock
Richard Prince, "Untitled (Covering Pollock)," 2010. Collage and acrylic on c-print. 40 x 52 1/2 inches. Courtesy Richard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, and Guild Hall Museum. “I am nature.” –Jackson...
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On View Now | The Curious Case of “Night Scented Stock”
Bryan Crockett. "Gluttony," 2002. Cultured marble, 12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery and Julian LaVerdiere. Halfway through Night Scented Stock, an exhibition currently on view...
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On View Now | Art as Palimpsest: The Boros Collection and Bunker Berlin
Exterior view of Bunker Berlin. Courtesy The Boros Foundation. Located on a relatively quiet street in fashionable Berlin-Mitte stands a hulking, imposing building known as Bunker Berlin. With its...
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On View Now | I See A Darkness: Warhol and Lichtenstein, Shadows and Mirrors...
Roy Lichtenstein. "Paintings: Mirror," 1984. Oil and Magna on canvas. 70 x 86 inches. Courtesy the Roy Lichtenstein Estate and the Leo Castelli Gallery. “People are always calling me a mirror, and if...
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On View Now | Experience Required: Carsten Höller at the New Museum
Carsten Holler. "Mirror Carousel," 2005. Installation view. Courtesy Juliana Balestin. A carousel, a 102-foot slide, a swimming pool called the Giant Psycho Tank and a kiosk giving out goggles that...
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On View Now | Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color”
Damien Hirst. “Zirconyl Chloride,” 2008. Household gloss on canvas. 84 inches diameter. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. © Damien Hirst/ Science Ltd, 2012. Photography Prudence Cuming Associates. “I was...
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On View Now | The Ungovernables: The New Museum’s Triennial Exhibition
Adrián Villar Rojas. "A Person Loved Me," 2012. Clay, wood, metal, cement, Styrofoam, burlap, sand, paint. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo: Benoit Pailley. The New Museum’s...
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On View Now | Chelsea Lately: Anne Truitt and Fred Sandback in New York
Anne Truitt, "Remember No. 5," 1999. Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Copyright Estate of Anne Truitt / The Bridgeman Art Library. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. A recent visit to the art galleries...
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On View Now | Tim Hetherington and the Photographic Experience of War
Tim Hetherington. "Nevalla, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan," 2008. Digital C-Print. © Tim Hetherington, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. In her 2002 article “Looking at War:...
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On View Now | Thomas Demand’s Photographic Memory
Thomas Demand. "Control Room," 2011. Diasec-mounted C-print, 78 3/4 by 118 inches. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn/Artists Rights Society, New York, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York When a man loses his...
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On View Now | Going Inside Cairo: The Photography of Michael von Graffenried
Michael von Graffenried. "Riot Police," 2007. Photographic c-print on dibond, 112.5 x 49 inches. © Michael von Graffenried, courtesy Parker's Box Gallery, Brooklyn. At times Western art functions as...
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On View Now | Arresting Development: Rineke Dijkstra’s Retrospective Exhibition
Rineke Dijkstra. "Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992." Chromogenic print, 117 x 94 cm. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. © Rineke Dijkstra. From the antique statue of...
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On View Now | The New Normal: Photographs from the Traina Collection
Hiroshi Sugimoto. “Elizabeth II,” 1999. Gelatin silver print, 58 3/4 x 47 in. (149.2 x 119.4 cm). © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York. The...
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On View Now | Andy Warhol and the Anxiety of Effluence
Andy Warhol’s window display at Bonwit Teller department store, 1961. In April 1961 Andy Warhol exhibited five large paintings in the window of Bonwit Teller, a New York department store where he had...
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On View Now | Cryptic Objects: Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society Museum
Lin Tianmiao. “Bound and Unbound”, 1997. Dimensions variable (detail). White cotton thread, 548 household objects, video projection, sound. Courtesy Asia Society Museum. As one of the few female...
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On View Now | Mark Bradford and the Revival of Abstraction
Mark Bradford. “Father, You Have Murdered Me,” 2012. Mixed media collage on canvas, 102 x 144 inches. © Mark Bradford / Image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. I must admit that I am...
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On View Now | Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
Christian Marclay, video still from “The Clock,” 2010. Single-channel video with sound, 24 hours. © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. The trick, intelligently applied, today...
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On View Now | Cyprien Gaillard: Video in an Age of Doubt
Cyprien Gaillard. “Desniansky Raion,” 2007. Video with sound, 30:00 min. © Cyprien Gaillard. Courtesy Bugada & Cargnel, Paris. One would be hard-pressed to find a more memorable video than Cyprien...
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On View Now | Time Warp: “NYC 1993” at the New Museum
Nan Goldin. “Gilles and Gotscha, Paris,” 1992-93. Cibachrome print. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/Los Angeles. There are many ways to remember any given year: defining...
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On View Now | Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Jon Kessler’s “The Web”
Jon Kessler. “The Web,” 2013 at Swiss Institute. Courtesy the artist and Métamatic Research Initiative, Amsterdam. Photo: Daniel Perez. Jon Kessler has built a remarkable career out of rather clunky...
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Alchemy: Richard Serra’s Early Work
Richard Serra. “To Lift,” 1967. Vulcanized rubber. 36 x 80 x 60 in. Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery. Photo: Peter Moore © 2013. Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. In 1958, two years...
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Transcendent Tapestries: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum
El Anatsui. “Earth’s Skin,” 2007. Aluminum and copper wire, 177 x 394 in. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the Akron Art Museum. Photo: Joe Levack. Gravity and...
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Rodney McMillian’s Sobering, Irreverent Take on Race in America
Rodney McMillian. Couch, 2012. On view at the Studio Museum. Couch and cement, 32 1/2 × 88 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York/Los Angeles. To experience Rodney McMillian’s...
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Two Exhibitions Show Artists Grappling with the Ravages of AIDS
Installation view of Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum. Willie Cole. How Do You Spell America? #2, 1993. Oil stick, chalk, wood and latex on Masonite, 49.2 x 96.5 x 4.5 inches. © Marisol Díaz, 2016. A few...
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Ambivalent Pleasures: A Conversation with Jesse McKee
Tamara Henderson. The Scarecrow’s Holiday, 2015. Textile, wood, glass, sand, pigment. Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, London . I recently spoke with the curator Jesse McKee who, along with Daina...
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Mastry: A Complex Portrait of Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall. Untitled (Painter), 2009. Acrylic on PVC panel, 44 5/8 × 43 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (113.3 × 109.5 × 9.8 cm). Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Katherine S. Schamberg by...
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ICP’s Momentous and Magnificent Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social...
Earthrise, taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Courtesy of NASA. The International Center for Photography’s Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change could...
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Meriem Bennani’s Holiday Headscarf
Meriem Bennani, Promotional Materials for Your Year, 2017. Courtesy of the artist. Meriem Bennani’s new artwork, Your Year by Fardaous Funjab, features the most recent hijab in the artist’s fictional...
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Tracing the Out-of-Sight: Cristina Camacho’s Symmetrical Tensions
Cristina Camacho. Feeling Red, 2015. Acrylic on canvas; 56” x 50”. Courtesy of the artist. While preparing for an exhibition, Cristina Camacho read Haruki Murakami’s novel, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle....
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Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1
Tomáš Rafa. New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe. 2009-present. Courtesy of the artist. Nothing is fictitious in Tomáš Rafa’s latest film, New Nationalism in the Heart of Europe (2015–2016). All of...
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Climate Change & Data Drawings: An Interview with Maya Lin
Maya Lin. Folding the Columbia, 2017. Glass marbles and adhesive; 13′ x 26′ x 1″ (396.2 cm x 792.5 cm x 2.5 cm). No. 67693. © Maya Lin Studio. Photograph by Kerry Ryan McFate. Courtesy of Pace Gallery....
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Philadelphia Illuminated
Cai Guo-Qiang. Fireflies, 2017. Photo: Jeff Fusco. Courtesy of Association for Public Art. Public space has always been a contested realm; the questions of who is seen, heard, and permitted to take up...
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Cloth is a Battleground in Stephanie Syjuco’s “CITIZENS”
Stephanie Syjuco. CITIZEN (Portrait of S), 2017. Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. © Stephanie Syjuco. In her latest exhibition at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York City, Stephanie...
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