Lorraine O’Grady

Alexander Gray Associates

May 2012

The centerpiece of Lorraine O’Grady’s exhibition “New Worlds” is Landscape (Western Hemisphere), 2011, a video that leads the viewer to initially believe its nineteen minutes of black-and-white footage depict something akin to a … READ ON

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Corin Hewitt

December 2011

On entering Corin Hewitt’s first solo show at Laurel Gitlen, the viewer is confronted by five cast dirt screens. It soon becomes clear that these works are part of a double act; each of the chromatic and texturally uniform screens is a … READ ON

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Van Hanos

May 2011

There is an easiness to Van Hanos’s latest exhibition, which comprises eleven twenty-by-twenty-four inch paintings; the pacing of the show, dimensions of the work, and domestic scale of the gallery relay a deliberately slow rhythm. Each … READ ON

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Sascha Braunig

April 2011

The nine portraits that make up Sascha Braunig’s first solo exhibition are small but electric. Each painting holds its subject captive in unyielding patterns of intense colors, often with unsettling modifications of presumably human, and … READ ON

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David Horvitz

David Horvitz talks about “Public Access”

March 2011

David Horvitz has made books, photographs, posters, and websites, which have been exhibited and shared internationally. His collaboration with poet Zach Houston and writer Ed Steck for the exhibition “As Yet Untitled: Artists & Writers in… READ ON

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Talking Trash

Rita Ackermann and Harmony Korine at the Swiss Institute

November 2010 NEW YORK

TRYING TO SQUEEZE into an elevator next to a bone-thin, mangy white dog right out of the landscape of Julien Donkey Boy seemed utterly apropos in anticipation of “Shadow Fux,” the first collaborative exhibition by New York downtown staples… READ ON

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Guest Host

ArtParis+Guests

March 2010 PARIS

AFTER AN UNUSUALLY LONG, cold winter, spring finally made its way to Paris last week, attended by a much needed injection of energy and an optimism that is rare among the city’s typically unimpressed inhabitants. On Wednesday afternoon, a… READ ON

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Manon de Boer

March 2010

Following Manon de Boer’s examination of silence and memory in 2008’s Two Times 4‘33“—a performance of John Cage’s 4’33” presented with and without recorded sound—the 16-mm film Dissonant, 2010, the centerpiece of this … READ ON

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Marijn van Kreij

September 2009

Marijn van Kreij’s solo debut in London is crowded with phrases, lyrics, and images, which are multiplied in each work to demonstrate a persistence of repetition. The exhibition’s title, “The Passenger,” is borrowed from Iggy Pop’s… READ ON

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“The Actuality of the Idea”

April 2009

A traceable evolution of tempered restraint is apparent in this multigenerational group exhibition: The oldest works are drawings that share a sense of moderation with several recent sculptures, despite the distinct physicality of the latter.… READ ON

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