America: Now and Here America: Now and Here
A vast new art exhibition will attempt to reconnect the heartland to our nation's artistic genius.
Aug 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Simon Maxwell Apter
A Calamity of Heart A Calamity of Heart
An essay for “America: Now and Here.”
Aug 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow
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
Scattered Threads Scattered Threads
This year's Whitney Biennial fails to address the question of which art pertains to our time rather than any other.
Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Escape Hatch: On Cady Noland The Escape Hatch: On Cady Noland
Ironic exclamation points and metallic rectangles were some of Cady Noland's favorite things.
Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Her Wild Entire: On Dorothea Tanning Her Wild Entire: On Dorothea Tanning
The brilliant revelations and transformations of Dorothea Tanning.
Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Evasive Action Painter: On Gerhard Richter Evasive Action Painter: On Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings are miraculously controlled accidents.
Jan 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
How Soon Was Now? How Soon Was Now?
The death, and afterlife, of the Polaroid.
Dec 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Resistance of Painting: On Abstraction The Resistance of Painting: On Abstraction
To speak of a movement of abstractionists would be a contradiction in terms, like speaking of a church of atheists.
Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Fever Charts: On Jack Tworkov Fever Charts: On Jack Tworkov
Jack Tworkov's writings wrestle with the figures of Abstract Expressionism and his own lost illusions.
Sep 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky