Barry Schwabsky

Art Critic

Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of The Nation.

Maureen Gallace, Ice Storm, Easton (With Robert), 2015.

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 / Barry Schwabsky, Michael Sorkin, and Our Readers

Detail from Pablo Picasso’s Guitar (1924).

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

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.

Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale

Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Three Figures

The 2015 Venice Biennale The 2015 Venice Biennale

Islands of meaning in a morass of incoherence.

Jul 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

An Experimental Life

An Experimental Life An Experimental Life

Sonia Delaunay breathed art like others lived alcohol or crime.

Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Inside Out

Inside Out Inside Out

With its new building, the Whitney Museum is now the best place to see modern and contemporary art in New York City.

May 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Silence and Slow Time

Silence and Slow Time Silence and Slow Time

The art of On Kawara.

Mar 20, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist

The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist

MoMA’s “Forever Now” trumpets art with a shallow sense of tradition.

Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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