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Barry Schwabsky

Barry Schwabsky, an American art critic and poet living in London, is co-editor of the international review section of Artforum. His most recent book is Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. His new collection of poems will be published this year by Black Square Editions.

Currently

  • The Aesthetic Is the Personal

    July 1, 2008

    The Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggenheim.

  • Seeing Past the Gorgons

    June 19, 2008

    The New Yorker's art critic turns his eye toward the cultural summits.

  • Solemn, Expanded Time

    June 5, 2008 Subscribe

    An exhibition looks at the bits and pieces that made up some of the great artwork of Californian artist Jess.

  • Spots, Smudges and Glitter

    April 9, 2008 Subscribe

    A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.

  • Daring Intransigence

    March 6, 2008

    Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.

  • The Where of It

    February 5, 2008

    The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.

  • An Unmonumental Grimace

    January 28, 2008

    Taking stock of the new New Museum.

2007

  • Love by a Thousand Cuts

    November 21, 2007

    Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.

  • The Imperfectionist

    October 18, 2007

    Reconsidering the life and legacy of avant-garde artist and poet Francis Picabia.

  • Breaking and Entering

    May 31, 2007 Subscribe

    Gordon Matta-Clark's art displays how empty spaces illuminate the structures they are housed in.

2006

  • A Painter of Our Time

    December 14, 2006 Subscribe

    Diego Velázquez was a restless innovator, a painter who slyly revealed the ordinariness of his exalted subjects--one is almost tempted to call him modern.

  • Modern Love

    September 28, 2006

    Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.

2005

  • Octoberfest

    December 8, 2005

    Four editors of October magazine trace the history of contemporary art. Though Art Since 1900 seeks to be comprehensive, its writers leave out entire movements and impose moralistic judgments on the artists and art they profile.

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