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Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century

This is who we are. Is this who we are? This insistent dialectic murmurs and drones among the bodies of works in Josh Kline’s survey at the Whitney. The…

May 20 •

Jordan Nassar: A Mountain Looms

As you enter, there’s a place on the side table to drop your keys. Above the side table is a painted tile, marking the residence with the name “Nassar…

May 3 •

March 2023

Laura Poitras and Nan Goldin: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

To come out the other side. There are two sides, inside and outside. Outside is when you can talk about it, and reaching the other side must feel like a…

Mar 22 •

February 2023

David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures

I didn’t know what to expect with this Hockney show at Pace, only that I knew he had been working in France, using an iPad instead of paints and canvas…

Feb 22 •

November 2022

Generative AI and the Arts: 10 Extrapolations

Generative AI software for producing visual art, like Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, are having an impact comparable to that of the first cameras on…

Nov 13, 2022 •

October 2022

Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm

Francis Bacon is having a moment. I’m seeing his compressed illusionism and his splayed figuration in a few places recently. The paintings in Christina…

Oct 17, 2022 •

September 2022

Abdulnasser Gharem: Hospitable Thoughts

Clarity in political art is difficult to pull off, if the artwork aims to be more than a poster or bumper sticker. Abdulnasser Gharem attains a…

Sep 18, 2022 •

August 2022

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

Two immediate modes of appreciation hit me when looking at Charles Ray’s work. The first is the oddball humor. Plenty in this show. Family Romance is a…

Aug 6, 2022 •

July 2022

Michaël Borremans: The Acrobat

The paintings, all similar in format, of ‘characters’, centered within their frames, portrayed from waist up or more closely on the head, hang in one…

Jul 14, 2022 •

Bodhisattva et alia

These were taken on a recent visit to the Met in New York. There’s a surprising naturalism to the features and postures in these gods and demigods…

Jul 10, 2022 •

Avant-Garde Mannerism

Spider-Man: No Way Home challenges the hegemony of the single Spider-Man narrative which pervades our received notions of the superhero universe. In…

Jul 10, 2022 •

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Jul 9, 2022 •

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