Wayne Thiebaud, now nearly an octogenarian, may have started out as a populist illustrator of sweets but has increasingl…
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“Giacometti” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Is there much new that can be said about the great Swiss artist Giacometti? Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901 and …
Andrew Lyght at Skoto Gallery
Andrew Lyght is an inventive, challenging artist who lives and works upstate in Kingston. His art usually straddles the …
Emma Kohlmann at Jack Hanley Gallery
-Michael Busch
Like dreams, Emma Kohlmann’s paintings inhabit a surreality shaped by the forms and feelings of waking li…
Joel Shapiro at Paula Cooper Gallery
-Jonathan Goodman
Joel Shapiro’s excellent art, mostly sculpture, has been with us for a long time. He is a sculptor of …
Virva Hinnemo: Four Feet at Anita Rogers Gallery
-Jonathan Goodman
Virva Hinnemo lives far out on eastern Long Island, and her artwork looks very much like the art of th…
Hassan Sharif: “Semi-Systems” at Alexander Gray Associates
Hassan Sharif was born in Iran in 1951, and died in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in 2016. In the 1980s he studied in…
Katherine Bernhardt’s Green at Canada
Katherine Bernhardt’s pieces are fluid and free-spirited and incorporate an element of chance, while stemming from image…
UPROOT: Diversity and Discourse at Smack Mellon
What do a stuffed lion toy, portrait of a family with the dad in drag, and a painting of interlocking arms all have in c…
Anne Neely at the Cue Art Foundation
Anne Neely’s fine show of partially abstract, partially figurative paintings indicates her ongoing resolve to push both …