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2010 Stories by Robert Shuster

• 'Day Job' at the Drawing Center; Steve DiBenedetto's 'Who Wants to Know?' at David Nolan

  published December 22, 2010

  The hoary advice handed to first-time novelists­—"Write about what you know"­—may not have an equivalent in the visual... More >>

• Richard Garet's 'Electrochroma' at the Invisible Dog; Bernd and Hilla Becher's 'Water Towers' at Sonnabend

  published November 17, 2010

  Imagine one of those brain-washing scenes from a 1970s conspiracy flick and you get a pretty good sense of Richard Garet's mesmerizing... More >>

• Knox Martin at Woodward Gallery, Robert Wilson at Paula Cooper, Charlotte Schulz at Smack Mellon

  published October 20, 2010

  How many artists in their ninth decade find themselves as vigorously inventive as Knox Martin? In 34 new paintings, most of which concentrate... More >>

• Julie Blackmon at Robert Mann Gallery, Nancy Holt at Columbia, and 'Americanana' at Hunter College

  published October 6, 2010

  Child Protective Services would probably want to visit several of the families depicted in Julie Blackmon's photographs, if any of the... More >>

• Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime

  published September 1, 2010

  An empty asphalt parking lot rates pretty high on the ugly scale, so it would seem rather improbable that a painter had chosen just such a... More >>

• 'Summer Group Show' at David Nolan; Anne Ryan at the Met

  published August 25, 2010

  Slick, digitized graphics clutter our days with such meaningless insistence that even a short visit with the rudiments of... More >>

• Tim Hawkinson's 'One Man Band'; Michael Alan's 'Harmonious Opposites'

  published July 20, 2010

  If the professor of Gilligan's Island had ever cobbled together a music box, it might have looked like the device that Tim Hawkinson has... More >>

• Leon Levinstein's NYC Photos at the Met; Lee Bontecou Goes Sci-Fi at MOMA; Boris Lurie's Early Work at Westwood

  published June 22, 2010

  Unlike Robert Frank, who kept his distance when capturing his portraits of ordinary Americans, street photographer Leon Levinstein got as close... More >>

• Arnold Odermatt at Swiss Institute; Laurent Millet at Robert Mann; Darren Almond at Matthew Marks

  published May 25, 2010

  Thumbing through Arnold Odermatt's startling photographs of highway accidents collected in Karambolage, his first book, is a little like... More >>

• Edward Kienholz's Roxys; The Studio Museum's 'Collected'; Richard Diebenkorn at Greenberg Van Doren

  published May 18, 2010

  The chaste and charming whorehouse, run by a wise madam who mothers a coterie of fun-lovin' gals, is pure Hollywood nonsense. But the myth's... More >>

• Dominic McGill's 'FuturePerfect'; Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali; Nicolas Touron's 'The Kingdom'

  published April 27, 2010

  Imagine a deluge of sociopolitical news and opinion funneled into the draftsman's obsession known as horror vacuui, and you'll come close to... More >>

• Mark Greenwold's 'Secret Storm'; 'Rare Cuban Posters' at Cuban Art Space; Pawel Wojtasik's 'At the Still Point'

  published March 30, 2010

  A novelist's relatively meager production—a single work every year, at best—would seem to have no equivalent in visual arts, where... More >>

• 'The Visible Vagina' at Francis M. Naumann and David Nolan; Ryan Wallace's 'Glean'; 'Hotwire Comics #3'

  published February 23, 2010

  Judy Chicago's artful Red Flag—the infamous photograph of her hand removing a saturated tampon—remains as fierce a... More >>

• Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins; Superflex's 'Flooded McDonald's'; Iannis Xenakis at Drawing Center

  published February 16, 2010

  If you left one of Louise Nevelson's ominous sculptures in a forest for several years, you might end up with something resembling Leonardo... More >>

• Omer Fast at Postmasters and the Whitney; Anthony McCall's 'Leaving'; Josh Dorman's 'New Works'

  published January 12, 2010

  Pioneers in video art, Jesper Just and Omer Fast produce such slick, well-acted tales they make the old rough-edged loops of introspective... More >>

• Hans Breder's 'Inmixing'; Anton Lamazares at Queen Sofia; Zone's 'Disciplined Spontaneity'

  published January 5, 2010

  In this age of 500-channel cable television, radical art—the hair-raising, mystifying kind—seems to have largely fallen victim to... More >>