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Barry Schwabsky

Art Critic

Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of The Nation. Schwabsky has been writing about art for the magazine since 2005, and his essays have appeared in many other publications, including Flash Art (Milan), Artforum, the London Review of Books and Art in America. His books include The Widening Circle: Con­sequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting and several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail). Schwabsky has contributed to books and catalogs on artists such as Henri Matisse, Alighiero Boetti, Jessica Stockholder and Gillian Wearing, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Yale University.

Articles

News and Features

Rat Bastard: On Bruce Conner (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

The shadows were the elective habitat of the artist Bruce Conner, who thought true knowledge was shrouded in secrecy.

Barry Schwabsky
Shelf Life (Autobiography and Memoir, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard.

Barry Schwabsky
The Stone Dies Away Also: On Jimmie Durham (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Does a sculptor destroy things or merely change them?

Barry Schwabsky
Living With Disjunction: Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13 (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Steeped in anthropology and art history, this summer’s big shows are occasions for talk instead of exploring art that reaches the unsaid.

Barry Schwabsky
Extreme Eccentrics: Modern Art and its Collectors (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

When collecting works of avant-garde art, Albert Barnes and Leo and Gertrude Stein seemed even madder than its makers.

Barry Schwabsky
Frieze Frame: On Art Fairs (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Chockablock with art, art fairs are essentially authorless.

Barry Schwabsky
Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

When is a little more than enough in a painting?

Barry Schwabsky
Letters

Feedback on the April 23 issue: praise for Elizabeth Warren, Jonathan Schell and Katniss Everdeen, and an Italian lesson for Barry Schwabsky.

Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti (Books and Ideas, Fiction, History, Books and the Arts)

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.

Barry Schwabsky
Faces out of the Crowd: On the Renaissance Portrait (Fine Art, History, Books and the Arts)

How Renaissance painters brought human presence to the fore.

Barry Schwabsky