Reviews
"Naked Before the Camera"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 852, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New YorkThrough September 9, 2012The Met’s tiny Howard Gillman Galleries would be easy to miss, if it weren’t for the marquee tricked out in clown lights declaring “Naked” at the entrance. The signage promises a soft-core...
PARIS — It may seem risqué to put on a show of nudes at the Arab World Institute, especially considering the prevalence of fundamentalism in Arab countries today, but once preconceived notions are set aside it makes perfect sense. "The Uncovered Body" is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art, but the works shown are anchored in a...
Pop art veterans Joe Goode and Antony Donaldson are celebrating fifty years of friendship with "Twice as Many," and the show is all affinities and subtle resonances, as if, at Mayor Gallery, the artists were continuing the conversations they have had in the studio over the decades. At the core of this exchange is the nature of still life...
With "Intense Proximity," the Palais de Tokyo's new Triennial that opened April 20 and continues through August 26, France finally has a large-scale contemporary art exhibition that engages the full breadth of today's art world. Curator Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian-born American art historian and director of Munich's Haus der Kunst,...
As an artist, Lucio Fontana made his mark, literally. The best-known of his "Concetto Spaziale" works — intensely monochrome paintings marked with slashes that look like surgical cuts — are ubiquitous in art and design fairs around the world. The Italian artist, who was born in Argentina in 1899 and died in 1968, is recognized by...
He was Salvador Dali's secretary, advisor, accountant, driver, bodyguard, confidant, and best friend. Enrique Sabater's duties could range from negotiating the artist's payments to running out to buy moustache wax, and he has called the time he spent in Dali's employ, from 1968 to 1981, "some of the best years of my life." Dali was at...
Jo BaerGagosian Gallery, 19 Place de Longemalle 1204, GenevaMarch 29-June 30, 2012Not everyone knows the name of Jo Baer, the ex-pat Minimalist painter known for her sleek white linen, black-bordered paintings of the 1960s and 1970s. After all, she currently lives in Amsterdam, though she earned her New York stripes decades ago...
Jenny Holzer, "Endgame"Skarstedt Gallery, 20 East 79th Street, New YorkMarch 1-April 7, 2012Thirty years ago, Jenny Holzer aspired to become an abstract painter in the vein of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Instead, she became postmodernism’s Confucian language poet, famous for her pithy, wise, and sometimes-devious one-liners scrawled...
It's been a long time in the making. Now, through July 1, the Musée Marmottan Monet is celebrating the work of Berthe Morisot, the major female figure of the Impressionist movement, through a rich collection of paintings, pastels, sketches, furnishings, and personal documents. In the refined atmosphere of a nineteenth-century pavilion,...
Doug Wheeler’s current installation at David Zwirner gallery is amazingly good. Almost too amazing and too good for this world.Wheeler is one of the original cadre of artists who fomented California’s now-classic Light and Space movement, alongside better-known figures like Robert Irwin and James Turrell. The Zwirner project,...
