Philadelphia “People often talk as if there was an opposition between…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Carmel Buckley
Cincinnati In the entrancing exhibition “Trace,” Carmel Buckley evokes…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Mel Kendrick
New York Commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Arthur Simms
Lincoln, Massachusetts At first encounter, the work of Arthur Simms…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Barbara Josephs Liotta
Washington, DC Six of Barbara Josephs Liotta’s seven recent granite-shard…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Whitney Biennial 2010
New York Labeled by some as the Recession Biennial…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Reiterating Allan Kaprow’s Yard
For Allan Kaprow, prodigious artist, theorist, and inventor of Happenings in the late ’50s, art and life were not separate. He wanted art to reflect life directly. While his Happenings did not always rise to the level of his intentions, when they did, the experience could prove exhilarating.
Michael Aurbach: Secrecy, the Promethean Weapon
Chained to an icy crag by Zeus and tormented by an eagle, Prometheus had one weapon, a secret: he knew who would bear the son fated to dethrone the father of the gods. Secrets, the myth tells us, give power to their bearers, however vulnerable they might seem.
Revolutionizing History: A Conversation with Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, and Dara Greenwald
Artists Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, and Dara Greenwald make the invisible visible, from daily routines to entire cultural moments. Passing through the streets of Troy, New York, the trio felt a mounting sense of dismay at the changing cityscape and the loss of visible history.
Maria Artemis: Mining Materials
The best ideas often come when you least expect them. For a year, Maria Artemis worked on her show for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Armed with a Working Artists Program award from the Charles Loridans Foundation, which provided her with financial support and a paid studio assistant for one year, the Atlanta-based
