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July 2010
A welcome note to the “new issue” of artcritical is an exercise in drastic understatement this month, as the welcome is to a new look magazine. The design overhaul of artcritical has been, indeed...
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October 2011
Melissa Meyer, Walk the Line, 2011. Oil on canvas, 52 x 76 inches. Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. where the work is currently on view through October 29. If public holiday’s could make...
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Intimate Love, Infinite Line and Sunflower Seeds by the Thousand
The Review Panel: January 27 at the National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue . artcritical’s The Review Panel returns to the National Academy Museum January 27 at the new start time of 6.30 PM....
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History Lessons
New and Noteworthy at artcritical André Derain, The Painter and his Family, circa 1939. Tate Collection. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002 “The beauty of performance—or its weakness, if your...
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Art World Planning, Aesthetic Sprawl
The Review Panel will consider Whitney Biennial 2012 Dawn Kasper's art installation 'This Could Be Something if I Let It, 2012'. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Our heads are still reeling from the...
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May Day! May Day! More Art Fairs
Serban Savu, Small Talk after Lunch, 2012, oil on canvas, 40 1/2 x 51 3/16 inches. Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery. On view at the Frieze Art Fair, Randall Island, New York May 4 to 7, When New Yorkers...
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Pride, Timely and Otherwise
It is never too late to show a little pride. But as a “periodical” artcritical.com prides itself on timeliness, so a small apology is due to our gay and homophile readers for the fact that our line up...
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Welcome to an artcritical Fall: The bulletin returns
An untitled, undated work by James Castle (found paper, crayon, soot3 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches) on view at Peter Freeman, Inc.’s exhibition, David Adamo/James Castle, one of the exhibitions under...
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“Après moi, le deluge”: The Review Panel in Its Tenth Year
SEPTEMBER 2014 Maybe the Jeff Koons portrait of Louis XIV triggers the association, but Labor Day always reminds me of the Sun King: “après moi, le deluge.” We are certainly in the thick of...
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New Kid, Gloves Off
Thoughts on negative criticism, The Review Panel and his new job from our recently appointed Associate Editor. Ara Merjian, Roberta Smith, David Cohen and Stephen Westfall at The Review Panel, October...
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A Poet Among Painters
For artcritical.com, a milestone and a significant appointment. The former has been trumpeted for a while in our newsletters but the giddy sense of achievement is yet to rub off: the tenth anniversary...
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The Marathon That Keeps On Running
Ragnar Kjartansson and The National: A Lot of Sorrow, film still, on view at Luhring Augustine Bushwick, one of four shows to be discussed at The Review Panel, November 21. 2014 Last weekend’s marathon...
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Ken Johnson and Mindless Young Zombies
The covers, respectively, of “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art and the reader arising from the controversy it sparked Disputes and dialogues in the arts can last for a very long time. A friend and I,...
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An Early Spring: The Review Panel Season Debut, Friday 13th
“Nora Griffin”, 2014, oil on canvas, 98″x108″, in Heidi Howard: Portrait and a Dream, at Nancy Margolis Gallery This Friday marks the inauguration of the 10th Spring season of The Review Panel. We’re...
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The Value of Tributes
Two tributes on the cover of artcritical artcritical.com doesn’t aspire to be the journal of record when it comes to obituaries: we respond as any serious art magazine does when a giant leaves the...
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A Prize Interview
Mary Claire Ramirez, Stereotype (Stage Left and Stage Right), 2015. Archival inkjet prints, each 40 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the Artist We like to think that all the dialogues, roundtables and...
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The Day Has Come
The hustings are done in New Hampshire but things are heating up on Grand Army Plaza. After a half-season’s hiatus, a fabled forum is back: The Review Panel, arriving this evening (Tuesday, February 9)...
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In 2004 artist Andrew Ginzel produced a list of current art exhibitions for his multimedia class at SVA which he would soon share with friends and friends of friends: SOME but not all SHOWS TO SEE...
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“Time for action, for love, for art”
Marilyn Minter, Blue Poles, 2007. Enamel on metal, 60 x 72 inches. Private collection, Switzerland These are the brave words that Josephine Halvorson, the painter, posted to Facebook in the early hours...
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New Kid, Gloves Off
Thoughts on negative criticism, The Review Panel and his new job from our recently appointed Associate Editor. Ara Merjian, Roberta Smith, David Cohen and Stephen Westfall at The Review Panel, October...
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