Reviews
Molly Crabapple is a star, though not an art star in the conventional sense — and I mean that as a compliment. “Shell Game,” her recent show featuring nine large, fanciful paintings, closed last week at the LES’s small Smart Clothes gallery,...
At the center of the critical debate over the status of John Singer Sargent's watercolors lies the question of their relation to his far more famous landscapes and portraits in oil. Were these a frustrated professional's non-commercial, modernist experiments...
Once again, ARTINFO has sent its intrepid staff into the streets of New York, charged with reviewing the art they saw in a single (sometimes run-on) sentence. (To see our One-Line Reviews as an illustrated slideshow, click here.)Simon Lee, “Mother is Passing...
Derek Mainella and Elizabeth Eamer have curated a tantalizing look at the U.K. art scene for the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Provocatively titled “Are You Alright? New Art from Britain,” the exhibition brings together a dream team of British artists...
Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors,” just about to end an extended run at Luhring Augustine, is a great work. It is so great, as a matter of fact, that I almost immediately want to develop a critique of it, because it makes such a convincing case for its...
There is more than a touch of irony to “#undertheinfluence,” the latest show at KM Fine Arts in Los Angeles — 10 percent of sales from the exhibition by the artist known as Desire Obtain Cherish will go to Friendly House, a Los Angeles charity founded in 1951...
The New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and More Star” conjures the strongest and most uncomfortable feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in years – which is the whole point. The star-packed, vintage hodgepodge of political...
Not since the Musée d’Orsay’s 2010 “Crime and Punishment” has Paris received a show with as much darkness and density as the museum’s new exhibition, “The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst” (on view through June 9). With over 200 works...
Having turned 93 this past December, the iconic “painter of black” French artist Pierre Soulages would be highly deserving of a major retrospective; but his current show “21st-Century Soulages,” on view at the French Academy in the Villa Medici in Rome...
The strange history behind the exhibition and film “The Lebanese Rocket Society” (on view at the Paris gallery In Situ through April 18) began when Beirut-based artist-filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, researching Lebanese history, ...
