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By Christian Viveros-Faune
Ellsworth Kelly
June 5 through September 3
America's foremost abstract painter, it turns out, is a closet realist. Who knew? This summer, the... More >>
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Voyage into a maze by the inventor of Tropicália
By Ben Davis
Brazilian art-wizard Hélio Oiticica (1937 to 1980) was a rough contemporary of conceptual art, but his increasingly highly prized body of... More >>
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By Robert Shuster
Like other great war photographers, the late Tim Hetherington always went beyond the raw surface of armed conflict to find a more intimate... More >>
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Seize the frieze
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Familiar characters from the old boom-time economy are in New York in greater numbers than usual this week. There are the gazillionaire hedge... More >>
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A veteran artist turns cultural identity into abstract art
By Ben Davis
Lorraine O'Grady, a performance pioneer, is herself a character more interesting than almost any she could invent. Born in 1934 of mixed... More >>
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George Washington loses his head, plus some other good decay
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Republicans love the myth of creative destruction, the idea that capitalism needs to annihilate old markets to create new wealth. In fact, Mitt... More >>
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By Robert Shuster
The title of this show couldn't be more apt. The boxlike constructions here by various artists—most created in previous decades and all... More >>
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Two artists tackle the real world in very different ways
By Christian Viveros-Faune
In our time, art has seen more questionable uses than baby wipes. Recently, there has been, among other hot messes, art as propaganda (Russian... More >>
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Return of the crawling baby
By R. C. Baker
Keith Haring (1958–90) was cursed to live in interesting times. His generation partied feverishly but was decimated by a plague made worse... More >>
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The dirty mirror man
By R. C. Baker
Tony Matelli apologizes loudly for the clanging hammers and whining grinders in his Greenpoint studio. A melodic drone by '60s minimalist pioneer... More >>
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America's big art show trades the real world for conceptual clutter
By Christian Viveros-Faune
In the art world, there are those who have money, those who don't, and those who ignore the economy altogether. The last are thinning but insist... More >>
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Plus: Ryan Sullivan at Maccarone; 'Peripheral Visions' at Hunter College
By Robert Shuster
You'll probably learn a thing or two by studying the text of Ward Shelley's complex timelines—which depict (among other topics) the... More >>
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By R. C. Baker
In 1965, James Rosenquist told an interviewer: "While I was working in Times Square and painting signboards, the workmen joked around and said... More >>
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Three Voice critics debate the issue in the age of Occupy and Ai Weiwei
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Everyone today, evangelical or freegan, agrees on one thing: The country's economic and political system needs to adapt to survive. But what... More >>
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Plus: DuBuffet at Pace Gallery
By Robert Shuster
When you walk toward Doug Wheeler's bright, alluring enclosure, you might feel like one of those characters about to visit another dimension in... More >>
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Get ready for the ruins
By Christian Viveros-Faune
In this village where we live, the future hasn't happened yet, but it will. The aesthetics of decline—a gathering movement that features... More >>
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Burning police cars, anyone?
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Let's begin by admitting the obvious. Art critics—like presidents, accountants, and property developers—have no business making... More >>
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Gagosian Gallery hosts a display of the late artist's spot paintings
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Damien Steven Hirst, the world's richest artist ($332 million according to Britain's Sunday Times), full-time businessman, part time... More >>
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Plus, Ray Parker at Washburn; Cinthia Marcelle at Galerie Lelong; and Dawn Clements at Pierogi
By R.C. Baker
Although the CliffsNotes version of postwar American art trumpets the antagonism between macho abstract expressionists and later generations of... More >>
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Three Voice critics name their favorites from the past year
By R. C. Baker, Robert Shuster and Christian Viveros-Faune
OK, folks—here you go. The top NYC art shows that happened
in 2011, selected by three of our
ever-discerning art writers.
R.C.... More >>
