Rachel Mica Weiss makes art that is expansive, large and heavy. She studied psychology at Oberlin, metal casting and wea…
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Dan Schein: Paintings of Horses and Other Things Also at Marvin Gardens
For the tradition of equestrian sculpture and in painting, the horse has symbolized the nobility of emotions: bridled, r…
Andy Warhol: His Ongoing Legacy at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Although my students in art school don’t actively refer to him, Andy Warhol has changed the landscape of contemporary ar…
Jack Whitten: The Man Who Loved Sculpture
Jack Whitten and Simone Leigh A work of art called Aphrodite’s Lover can only be an act of love. Jack Whitten mean…
“Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel” at the New Museum
Sarah Lucas has a limitless talent for making ordinary life sensational. By recontextualizing everyday items — food, fur…
Otavio Schipper: GOLEM Curated by Lara Pan at Shin Gallery
There can be no question that Freud’s Unheimlich is one of the driving (and overarching) concerns behind Otavio Schipper…
Black Mirror Meets Alice in Wonderland: Jonathan Chapline and Misaki Kawai at The Hole NYC
For the exposition you critical art readers did not ask for, it was a Saturday evening, and I was walking down Bowery, h…
Hilma af Klint’s Futuristic Paintings at the Guggenheim Museum
Hilma af Klint (1866-1944) was an early Swedish-born modernist previously relegated to the margins but whose fortunes ar…
CUBA Behind the Masks at The Bronx Museum
Manuel Mendive finds magic in the rituals of his native Cuba, but I cannot swear that he ever experienced them at first …
Bill Viola: Life After Death at Stavanger Kunstmuseum
It is tempting to suggest that the Stavanger, Norway, with its nearby Iron-Age petroglyphs of Viking longboats, runes, a…