One of the best reasons to visit this year’s Whitney Biennial is Isaac Julien’s immersive multiscreen video installation, Once Again. . . (Statues Never Die), 2022, that also includes vitrines with Harlem Renaissance-era sculptures by Richmond Barthé, African sculptures, and contemporary works by Matthew Angelo Harrison. Julien interweaves historical footage and new images in the […]

ANSELM (2023) directed by Wim Wenders   Wim Wenders’s visually stunning and conceptually problematic film Anselm is perhaps not aimed toward an audience for whom Anselm Kiefer is a household name. Ostensibly a documentary about the formidable and influential German artist, the film is unapologetically engaged in the business of mythmaking. During the course of […]

A prominent motif in the paintings are nocturnal snowfalls—allover compositions on canvas with slick surfaces made of countless layers of oil pigment.

Below is a selection of some of the most memorable New York City art exhibitions of the season. The list contains museum as well as gallery shows, most of which are currently on view, and not to be missed. 1.) Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, through June 5.   This […]

This spring and summer, New York City’s art scene clearly began to recover its energy—and audiences—after a full year of Covid-19 shutdowns and restrictions. The situation may not be back to “normal,” but each gallery and museum I visited managed to project some credible version of normalcy. Artists helped provide art audiences with some hopeful […]

As New York City galleries and museums begin to reopen this fall, masks and social distancing are mandatory. Some proprietors have implemented added precautions, asking to take visitors’ temperatures as they enter the gallery, or requesting names and phone numbers for possible contact tracing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the larger […]

Highlights of New York Contemporary Art Galleries at the Shutdown As Covid-19 spread, with social distancing restrictions in place and most workplaces shuttered in response, New York City’s art galleries and museums entered lock-down mode in mid-March. As of mid-May, there were still no reopening plans in sight. The art world has practically ground to […]

1. Tracey Emin at Galeria Lorcan O’Neill In this particular moment of apprehension and anxiety in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, the tumbling financial markets, and against the backdrop of climate change, not to mention the tension-fraught U.S. presidential election, Tracey Emin examines “how it feels.” Her beacon-like pink cursive neon sculpture hung high […]

1. Pablo Picasso at Jeffrey H. Loria & Co. Each year The Art Show, hosted by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), affords the rare opportunity to see what treasures some of the country’s preeminent private dealers and appointment-only galleries have sequestered behind those mysterious closed doors. This year, Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., […]