Barry Schwabsky

Art Critic

is the art critic of The Nation.

The Aesthetic Is the Personal The Aesthetic Is the Personal

The Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggenheim.

Jul 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Seeing Past the Gorgons Seeing Past the Gorgons

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

Jun 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Solemn, Expanded Time Solemn, Expanded Time

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

Jun 5, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Spots, Smudges and Glitter Spots, Smudges and Glitter

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

Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Daring Intransigence Daring Intransigence

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

Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Where of It The Where of It

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

Feb 5, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

An Unmonumental Grimace An Unmonumental Grimace

Taking stock of the new New Museum.

Jan 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Love by a Thousand Cuts Love by a Thousand Cuts

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.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Imperfectionist The Imperfectionist

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

Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Breaking and Entering Breaking and Entering

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

May 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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