By Paco Barragán
Having been asked to narrate my recent visit to New York to some of its seminal museums, my remarks on it must be taken as biased-in the nature of a reprobation-rather than as the expression of entirely independent criticism.
I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge [...]
“Our first modernity in Latin America is indigenous, not a discovery in Paris in the 1870s, something happens there that resists academic, scientific and rational thought.”
By Paco Barragán
On the ocassion of his recent solo show “Juan Dávila: Imagen Residual/After Image” at Matucana 100 in Santiago de Chile, we spoke to Juan [...]
The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) has appointed Carla Acevedo-Yates, independent curator and critic from San Juan, P.R., as Assistant Curator. Acevedo-Yates will work closely with Broad MSU staff to build upon the museum’s international programming and position as a center for interdisciplinary collaboration.
“Carla brings a [...]
Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia
Curated by Anthony Elms and Hilton Als.
By Frederick Gross
The poet John Ashbery once called Christopher Knowles’ typed pictographic works “pure Conceptualism,” and this exhibition, co-curated by chief curator Anthony Elms and guest curator Hilton Als, certainly make a case for Knowles’ inclusion among notable artists of the 1970s [...]
SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA
By Todd Schroeder
A technological dream space full of paradoxes: repetitions and multiple entrances, a space for narrative that leads nowhere in particular. Hers is a painting in which the flat pattern of pixelated camouflage and the deep depth of Renaissance perspective fight for space, in which the [...]
Gladstone Gallery - New York
By Craig Drennen
Lari Pittman occupies a special place in the world of contemporary painting. His exhibitions in the mid-1990s had paintings so energized by their own amphetamine crackle that they looked ready to explode out of their frames. The patterns, pilgrims, books, words (”CUM”), numbers (”69″), credit cards, caution [...]
Cheim & Read - New York
By Craig Drennen
Jonathan Lasker’s recent solo exhibition at Cheim & Read looks remarkably relevant right now. It’s easy to forget how few painters from the Neo-Geo era survived unscathed into the 21st century without looking dated and overwrought. There’s an even smaller number who’ve gotten continually better over [...]
Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
In every major city in the United States, public schools are closing in disenfranchised neighborhoods at a precipitous rate. The city of Philadelphia is no exception, where 24 public schools were shuttered in 2013 alone. Seemingly a part of a master plan of [...]
Vanhaerents Art Collection - Brussels
Curated by Emma Dexter and Walter Vanhaerents
By Steve Schepens
The concept of the mirror is of great significance for literature, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, art, design, architecture and not in the least the construction market for bathrooms. In art, the mirror is the number one subject of all time. The mirror can [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art - Cleveland
By Tim Hadfield
Hauntingly beautiful, Do Ho Suh’s installation and exhibition at MOCA Cleveland indelibly fixes itself into collective memory. This show, comprised of diverse works addressing the meaning of home, habitation, relocation and identity engages the peripatetic life of the artist.
Having originally moved to the United States from [...]
