![A Critic’s Job of Work](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Schwabsky_Manet_otu.jpg)
A Critic’s Job of Work A Critic’s Job of Work
I don’t see my job as making or breaking an artist. I have other responsibilities toward art.
Mar 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![A photography class in a cabbage patch at Black Mountain College.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/schwabsky_blkmtn_img.jpg)
The Weirdness and Joy of Black Mountain College The Weirdness and Joy of Black Mountain College
Can the art of teaching art be exhibited? No, but people keep trying.
Feb 24, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![Lawrence Alloway at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, autumn 1965.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Schwabsky_Alloway_img.jpg)
In Praise of Lawrence Alloway In Praise of Lawrence Alloway
The former Nation art critic was a great intellectual resource among art writers in the 1960s and ’70s, and a revival of his work is under way.
Feb 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
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Point First, Shoot Later Point First, Shoot Later
Two museum exhibitions emphasize possible approaches to how an artist can navigate the oceans of photography around us.
Jan 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![Burnt Umber & Ultramarine (1993), by Yun Hyong-keun.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/schwabsky_image23_otu_img.jpg)
It’s Time To Stop Ignoring South Korean Abstract Art It’s Time To Stop Ignoring South Korean Abstract Art
Korean monochrome painting, or tansaekhwa, originated in a deep ambivalence about painting.
Dec 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![Maureen Gallace, Ice Storm, Easton (With Robert), 2015.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/schwabsky_gallace_otu_CROPPED_img.jpg)
Is Serious Landscape Painting Still Possible? Is Serious Landscape Painting Still Possible?
Maureen Gallace’s fresh and enigmatic work indicates that it is.
Nov 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
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Letters From the November 9, 2015, Issue Letters From the November 9, 2015, Issue
Inside out and outside in… Gates’s gilded gospel… obstacle illusions…
Oct 22, 2015 / Letters / Barry Schwabsky, Michael Sorkin, and Our Readers
![Detail from Pablo Picasso’s Guitar (1924).](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/schwabsky_picasso_otu-CROP_img.jpg)
The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars
His sculptures reveal the artist’s secret affinities with nascent anti-colonialist movements.
Oct 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![Sculpture/fountain by Naum Gabo at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital, London, UK](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Naum_Gabo_Fountain_img.jpg)
The Politics of Bad Art The Politics of Bad Art
In whose service does a painter paint, or a critic criticize?
Sep 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![Painting by Apostolos Georgiou.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/schwabsky_Apostolos_Georgiou_otu_img.jpg)
Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale
Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky