Barry Schwabsky | The Nation

In the paintings of Silke Otto-Knapp and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, there's an unending entanglement, and dialogue, between the present and the past.

Most of what we think we see in the photos and films of Laurel Nakadate is our own projection.

Tibor de Nagy’s Painters & Poets; Bill Berkson’s For the Ordinary Artist; William Corbett’s Albert York.

Radiant and obscure, the art of Lynda Benglis and David Hammons has a way of hiding itself.

Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco reduce the artistic gesture to the smallest effective intervention into reality.

The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry.

The truly consequential choices an artist makes are never experienced as choice but as necessity.

Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.

Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.

In his paintings and travels, Paul Gauguin sought a corner of himself that was still unknown.