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83rd – Vic Haven and Erik Hougen / Overland
The exhibition Overland at Planthouse takes two artists exploring place and space and brings them up against each other, in a mismatched joining; more collusion than juxtaposition. As a pairing...
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84th – Gauguin and Youngerman
As the summer approaches, I am looking forward to some projects in the works for the fall. Atlas will be less frequent (bi-weekly) until September, but there will still be reviews, studio visits and...
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85th – Midtown/LES recommendations
Since I spend the bulk of my waking hours in midtown, I thought I would highlight a few uptown shows that I have seen as well as a few Midtown and LES shows I am hoping to catch very soon. First a...
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86th – Vonnegut and Zola’s failed painters
Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard is a book I hold dear. I first devoured Vonnegut’s words more than 15 years ago when his beaten paperbacks filled our smoke filled London flat (I know its pretentious, but...
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87th – Kjartansson & Koons
The Ragnar Kjartansson show “Me, My Mother, My Father, and I.” at the New Museum just closed. The centerpiece of which is “Take me here by the Dishwasher”. I managed to spend about two periods of 20...
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88th – Color as Structure & road trip list
Don Voisine Time Piece, 2014 Color as Structure at McKenzie Fine Art is a show that could have been undone by its sameness. The work (mostly painting) has not only an affinity throughout, but a...
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89th – David Diao at the Aldrich
David Diao: Front to Back Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT This review of David Diao: Front to Back (as well as discussion between the artist and curator Richard Klein) at The Aldrich...
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90th – Clark, Cage and Curious George
Notes on the exhibition: Lygia Clark, Sandra Gering’s John Cage show and Why Children’s Books Matter These aren’t reviews, rather a few notes on the way shows are presented. Lygia Clark: The...
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91st – Marclay / Vogel / Gibson
3 notes about art writing: 1) In the Phaidon monograph Christian Marclay, the artist uses a pitch perfect tactic to share his thoughts on his work. Taking 12 years worth of collected interviews and...
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92nd – Confusion
The moment you set your eyes on something that affects you there is a small spark of notice that has been described as everything from a holy epiphany to a sinful orgasm. When I see art that burrows...
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93rd – Amy Sillman
There is plenty of pressure to compete in the art world triathlon that takes place year round. Hamptons to Hudson, Miami to Marfa and back to New York, the peripatetic art world has many places to...
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94th – Chelsea reviews
Roxy Paine, Checkpoint, 2014 I have compiled a list of recommendations for shows in Chelsea right now. These are all exhibitions I have seen in the last two weeks. While this is in no way a complete...
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95th – BRIC Biennial
Sherazade Garcia The BRIC Biennial is intriguing, mismatched and unsure of itself. Luckily much of the art is good. Jean Shin‘s chains dangling in the center of the student union-style pit are...
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Atlas – 96th – Previews: Dine, Dow, Goerk
Below are previews to three shows that I am looking forward to this month. Please keep your eyes open for all of these artists. If You See Something Say Something: Photographic works by Jeremiah...
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Atlas – 97th – Immersive Art Sites: a list of shame
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels This is a list of Capital A Art places and specifically immersive art installations that are site specific. Jori Finkel’s recent piece on the American non-collecting...
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Atlas – 98th – Ben Lerner and the vandals
Sometimes I find an article so compelling its the only thing I want to talk about. This is that. Author Ben Lerner’s argument in Damage Control, a Harpers article from Dec 2013 is ostensibly about...
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99th – Marc Riboud at The Rubin Museum
Walking into the Rubin Museum I expected very little from the exhibition of Francesco Clemente, ostensibly the result of his decades of conversation with India and it’s artistic practices. To say the...
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100th – Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Someone who loves film cannot help but become awash in nostalgia within a few minutes of entering the warm embrace of Christian Marclay’s The Clock. In August I went to the Walker Art Center for a...
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101 – Erik Hougen
Erik Hougen: To Dissolve Place written for The Common Studio, part of The Common. In reference to photography, Roland Barthes wrote that its unique position among art was that it referred directly...
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102 – Dubuffet, Evolving Portrait
Jean Dubuffet, Evolving Portrait, 1952 Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground, the least well publicized thing on at MoMA now, is a discreet, quiet show you might otherwise miss. The show is full of...
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