Email Author Robert Shuster

2009 Stories by Robert Shuster

• David Colosi's 'Imaginary Numbers'; Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman; Josée Bienvenu's 'Toluca Editions'

  published November 17, 2009

  Let the viewer = x, David Colosi writes, introducing his gloriously dense and slyly comic "proof" of God's manmade existence. Guided by... More >>

• Edward Burtynsky's 'Oil'; Robert Morris at Hunter College; Justine Cooper's 'Living in Sim'

  published November 3, 2009

  If you're not familiar with the work of Edward Burtynsky in documenting the industrial defacement of the planet, you'd be forgiven for... More >>

• Virginia Martinsen's 'Face on Mars' at ATM Gallery

  published October 6, 2009

  Abstract expressionism is now so embedded in our culture—accepted as a kind of brand name—that new work too often reflects our... More >>

• Richard Stankiewicz at Zabriskie Gallery; Conrad Marca-Relli's 'The New York Years, 1945-1967'

  published September 22, 2009

  The origin of Richard Stankiewicz's marvelous junkyard sculpture was, as the artist liked to tell it, the preparation for a garden. Digging in... More >>

• Fall Guide: Sarah Anne Johnson Conjures a Mind-Control Center

  published September 8, 2009

  "From the outside, it looks normal and happy," Canadian artist Sarah Anne Johnson says of the large, three-story dollhouse she painstakingly... More >>

• The Studio Museum's 'We Come With the Beautiful Things'; Dan Wynn at Farmani Gallery

  published July 28, 2009

  Since its inception in 1968, the Studio Museum in Harlem has been committed to the encouragement of young talent, including, for the past nine... More >>

• Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery; 'Portraits: In Pursuit of Likeness' at International Print Center; James Cohan Gallery's 'White Noise'

  published July 1, 2009

  For better or for worse, master cartoonist Basil Wolverton may have single-handedly altered thousands of boys' psyches. In a 50-year career,... More >>

• Peteran's 'Furniture Meets Its Maker'; 'Edge of Vision' at Aperture Foundation; Claire Harvey at Lombard-Freid

  published June 17, 2009

  It's a pity you can't sit inside Gord Peteran's windowed chamber, a beautiful and beguiling work, titled Ark, that he's crafted from oak... More >>

• Beate Gütschow at Sonnabend Gallery; 'Chance Encounters' at Ludlow 38; MOMA's 'Polish Posters, 1945-89'

  published May 27, 2009

  When you consider all the sculptural excesses and mirrored glass towers that today's master builders keep foisting on us, the... More >>

• Summer Guide: Dan Graham Gets a Whitney Retro

  published May 13, 2009

  Sit down with Dan Graham, a Renaissance man if ever there was one, and you'll likely get a verbal performance akin to high-energy jazz, a... More >>

• Dustin Yellin's 'Dust in the Brain Attic'; Coke Wisdom O'Neal at Mixed Greens; Sophie Calle's 'Take Care of Yourself'

  published May 6, 2009

  Art is often a happy accident, and for Brooklyn-based Dustin Yellin, it was a single errant bee. Some years ago, Yellin had just coated one of... More >>

• André Ethier's 'Heading South'; Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman; R.C. Baker's '...and Nixon's coming'

  published April 22, 2009

  Automatism, embraced by the surrealists as a direct path to the subconscious, has often seemed like a conceptual gimmick, but for André... More >>

• Paul Glabicki's 'Accounting for...'; Rosemarie Fiore's 'Pyrotechnics'; Celeste Boursier-Mougenot at Paula Cooper

  published April 8, 2009

  A Japanese ledger from the 1930s, filled with entries for an unknown business, may be an unlikely inspiration for art—unless it lands in... More >>

• Celeste Boursier-Mougenot

  published April 8, 2009

  Artist and composer Celeste Boursier-Mougenot has an immense talent for producing music from unexpected sources. In past installations, harmonicas... More >>

• Rosemarie Fiore: 'Pyrotechnics'

  published April 8, 2009

  She has fashioned an amusement park ride with buckets of paint so that it would draw enormous colored loops, and she's outfitted an Evel Knievel... More >>

• The Data Storm

  published April 8, 2009

  A Japanese ledger from the 1930s, filled with entries for an unknown business, may be an unlikely inspiration for art—unless it lands in the... More >>

• Totally Rad

  published April 8, 2009

  Designers get paid to think about what the rest of us take for granted, so now that you've spent another winter with that clanking, hissing hunk... More >>

• 'Krazy!' at Japan Society

  published April 8, 2009

  If the atomic bomb forever burdened Japan with apocalyptic visions, and if the postwar prohibition of armed forces repressed martial pride, then... More >>

• Manon

  published April 8, 2009

  A cross between Cindy Sherman and Hannah Wilke (with a touch of Marlene Dietrich), Swiss performance artist Manon has been giving European... More >>

• 'Krazy!' at Japan Society; Yohei Nishimura's 'Spent Heat'; 'Totally Rad' at MAD

  published March 25, 2009

  If the atomic bomb forever burdened Japan with apocalyptic visions, and if the postwar prohibition of armed forces repressed martial pride,... More >>

• Spring Guide: Chakaia Booker Is A Radial Radical

  published March 18, 2009

  For sculptor Chakaia Booker, her first career-guiding artistic inspiration was a kind of baptism by fire. Thirty years ago, during the city's... More >>

• Adel Abdessemed: RIO

  published March 18, 2009

  Alergia native and raw conceptualist Adel Abdessemed, taking his cues from "passion and rage," has played with a lion in a Paris street, dangled... More >>

• Yohei Nishimura: 'Spent Heat'

  published March 18, 2009

  Book burning doesn't usually earn you high marks in artistic circles, but under the guidance of Yohei Nishimura, the act produces startling... More >>

• Unica Zurn: Dark Spring

  published March 18, 2009

  The Drawing Center scores again with this exhibit of unnerving dream visions inked in the 1950s and '60s by Unica Zürn, when the German poet... More >>

• Pol Bury at Chelsea Art Museum; Carolee Schneemann's 'Painting, What It Became'; Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson

  published March 11, 2009

  Stare long enough at one of Pol Bury's unsettling kinetic sculptures, and you may start to feel like those scientists in The Andromeda... More >>