Catherine Taft
Llyn Foulkes
April 2013
WE CAN’T ALL BE GOOD LOOKING: This ugly truth is written in the margin of a drawing, inked around 1949, by a teenage Llyn Foulkes. Fourteen or fifteen years old, the aspiring cartoonist sketches six goon-like men whose jowls droop, nostrils… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
Amelie von Wulffen
November 2012
Amelie von Wulffen’s first solo museum show in the US comprised fifteen canvases that surrounded a conspicuous architectural intervention: The main gallery’s ductwork had been handpainted green and connected to the gallery floor by four… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2012 [TOC]
Allison Schulnik
October 2012
For such gendered mythological creatures, mermaids have a peculiarly sexless anatomy, at least below their scaled hips. So when Allison Schulnik paints a work like Mermaid with Legs (all works cited, 2012)—a large canvas depicting a seated… READ ON
IN PRINT October 2012 [TOC]
Sachs Race
The 2012 ArtCRUSH
August 2012 ASPEN
TOM SACHS HAS MADE an art of aping the emblems and rituals of American culture. So when the artist was honored during the rituals of this year’s ArtCRUSH, it seemed a chance for the culture to give back. Wednesday marked the kick-off of … READ ON
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Lost Weekend
Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend
May 2012 LOS ANGELES
“HAS IT REALLY BEEN TEN YEARS?” more than one partygoer wondered aloud last Friday night at the opening of Dave Muller’s resurrected Three Day Weekend (TWD). Indeed, it had been nearly a decade since the artist hosted one of his … READ ON
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Mitchell Syrop
May 2012
It would be all too easy to describe Mitchell Syrop’s recent body of text-based works as the product of some loose stream of consciousness. But this show’s sole work, Bifurcated Life, 2011—comprising twenty-eight archival prints, each … READ ON
IN PRINT May 2012 [TOC]
Liz Glynn
April 2012
In her exhibition “No Second Troy,” Liz Glynn made her own archaeological dig through the epic chronicles of “Priam’s Treasure”—the supposed gold of Troy discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1873—in order… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2012 [TOC]
“Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973–1977”
February 2012
Among Mike Kelley’s 1976 series “Untitled (Allegorical Drawings),” a sketch shows a bony nude figure crouching on the mutating head of another; the caption below reads, CRUDE PEASANTS STANDING ON THE GLORY THAT ONCE WAS ROME—UNAWARE … READ ON
IN PRINT February 2012 [TOC]
Polly Apfelbaum
January 2012
Polly Apfelbaum’s “Feelies”—an ongoing series of small, unfired polymer-clay sculptures that the artist began during her Yaddo residency in 2010—point to a handful of cultural references, namely the midcentury abstractions of painter… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2012 [TOC]
Stephen Shore
November 2011
Sometimes a quiet, understated image demands equally unfussy discourse, which is why it is difficult (if not counterintuitive even to try) to articulate the vernacular magic within Stephen Shore’s photographs: scenes that are familiar yet… READ ON