Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov Shelf Life: On Philip Guston, Carolee Scheemann and Ilya Kabakov
The truly consequential choices an artist makes are never experienced as choice but as necessity.
Dec 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo
Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo made art that was deliberately elusive, that does not want to be pinned down.
Dec 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero No Images of Man: On Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero began using only the female figure in her paintings to push back the limits of her world.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern
In his paintings and travels, Paul Gauguin sought a corner of himself that was still unknown.
Oct 13, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Good-Enough Objects: On Craft Good-Enough Objects: On Craft
How did craft become a calling that dare not speak its name?
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
An Art of Time An Art of Time
Rafael Ferrer and Christian Marclay prize an aesthetic of spontaneous responsiveness irrespective of subject.
Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century); Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists Talk about Teaching; Curating and the Educational Turn
Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Changing Light at Craneway The Changing Light at Craneway
In the film projects of Tacita Dean, everything is just about to disappear.
Jun 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Black Is Also a Color Black Is Also a Color
"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917" makes some of Modernism's most familiar paintings seem unresolved and difficult again.
Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
No Imagination No Imagination
Christen Købke painted the presence of things—buildings, faces, skies—as the presence of enigma.
May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky