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Transcendent Tapestries: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum

Transcendent Tapestries: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum

by Max Weintraub | Aug 7, 2013

Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum marks the first solo exhibition in a New York museum of Anatsui’s art. Featuring over thirty works by …

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Alchemy: Richard Serra’s Early Work

by Max Weintraub | May 2, 2013

Alchemy: Richard Serra’s Early Work

by Max Weintraub | May 2, 2013

David Zwirner Gallery revisits early works by Art21-featured artist Richard Serra. Columnist Max Weintraub says this show is “not to be missed.”

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On View Now | Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Jon Kessler’s “The Web”

by Max Weintraub | Apr 4, 2013

On View Now | Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Jon Kessler’s “The Web”

by Max Weintraub | Apr 4, 2013

“Kessler turns to contemporary visual culture, and specifically Apple Inc., to examine the impact of popular and commercial imagery and products on society’s desires…”

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On View Now | Time Warp: “NYC 1993” at the New Museum

by Max Weintraub | Mar 7, 2013

On View Now | Time Warp: “NYC 1993” at the New Museum

by Max Weintraub | Mar 7, 2013

Some works “seem as powerful and provocative today as they were twenty years ago,” writes Max Weintraub in our second review of “NYC 1993.”

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On View Now | Cyprien Gaillard: Video in an Age of Doubt

by Max Weintraub | Feb 7, 2013

On View Now | Cyprien Gaillard: Video in an Age of Doubt

by Max Weintraub | Feb 7, 2013

Max Weintraub reviews “Cyprien Gaillard: The Crystal World,” now on view at MoMA PS1.

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On View Now | Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”

by Max Weintraub | Jan 3, 2013

On View Now | Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”

by Max Weintraub | Jan 3, 2013

Columnist Max Weintraub reviews Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” (2010), calling it a “tour de force of contemporary art” and “a cinematic wonder.”

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On View Now | Mark Bradford and the Revival of Abstraction

by Max Weintraub | Dec 6, 2012

On View Now | Mark Bradford and the Revival of Abstraction

by Max Weintraub | Dec 6, 2012

Max Weintraub on Mark Bradford’s monumental new works, on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

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On View Now | Cryptic Objects: Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society Museum

by Max Weintraub | Nov 1, 2012

On View Now | Cryptic Objects: Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society Museum

by Max Weintraub | Nov 1, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews Lin Tianmiao’s exhibition “Bound Unbound” at the Asia Society Museum in New York.

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On View Now | Andy Warhol and the Anxiety of Effluence

by Max Weintraub | Oct 4, 2012

On View Now | Andy Warhol and the Anxiety of Effluence

by Max Weintraub | Oct 4, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,” which aims to account for Warhol’s influence on other artists.

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On View Now | The New Normal: Photographs from the Traina Collection

by Max Weintraub | Sep 6, 2012

On View Now | The New Normal: Photographs from the Traina Collection

by Max Weintraub | Sep 6, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews “Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

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On View Now | Arresting Development: Rineke Dijkstra’s Retrospective Exhibition

by Max Weintraub | Aug 2, 2012

On View Now | Arresting Development: Rineke Dijkstra’s Retrospective Exhibition

by Max Weintraub | Aug 2, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews the Rineke Dijkstra retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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On View Now | Going Inside Cairo: The Photography of Michael von Graffenried

by Max Weintraub | Jul 5, 2012

On View Now | Going Inside Cairo: The Photography of Michael von Graffenried

by Max Weintraub | Jul 5, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews Michael von Graffenried’s “Inside Cairo,” a photographic series focusing on the quotidian activities and daily rituals in Egypt’s capital city.

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On View Now | Thomas Demand’s Photographic Memory

by Max Weintraub | Jun 7, 2012

On View Now | Thomas Demand’s Photographic Memory

by Max Weintraub | Jun 7, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews an exhibition of Thomas Demand’s new photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

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On View Now | Tim Hetherington and the Photographic Experience of War

by Max Weintraub | May 21, 2012

On View Now | Tim Hetherington and the Photographic Experience of War

by Max Weintraub | May 21, 2012

Photographer Tim Hetherington captures the war experience through symbolically ambiguous images that resist generalization.

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On View Now | Chelsea Lately: Anne Truitt and Fred Sandback in New York

by Max Weintraub | Apr 5, 2012

On View Now | Chelsea Lately: Anne Truitt and Fred Sandback in New York

by Max Weintraub | Apr 5, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews current exhibitions by Anne Truitt and Fred Sandback, two of the more under-appreciated artists that emerged in the 1960s.

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On View Now | The Ungovernables: The New Museum’s Triennial Exhibition

by Max Weintraub | Mar 1, 2012

On View Now | The Ungovernables: The New Museum’s Triennial Exhibition

by Max Weintraub | Mar 1, 2012

Max Weintraub looks at highlights from the New Museum’s Triennial exhibition “The Ungovernables.”

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On View Now | Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 2, 2012

On View Now | Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 2, 2012

Max Weintraub argues that Gagosian Gallery’s exhibition provides convincing evidence that Damien Hirst is indeed an extraordinary colorist.

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On View Now | Experience Required: Carsten Höller at the New Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 5, 2012

On View Now | Experience Required: Carsten Höller at the New Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 5, 2012

Höller’s provocative exhibition turns the art-going experience into an extreme sport.

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On View Now | I See A Darkness: Warhol and Lichtenstein, Shadows and Mirrors en Abyme

by Max Weintraub | Dec 1, 2011

On View Now | I See A Darkness: Warhol and Lichtenstein, Shadows and Mirrors en Abyme

by Max Weintraub | Dec 1, 2011

“People are always calling me a mirror, and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?” – Andy Warhol In the current exhibition at the …

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On View Now | Art as Palimpsest: The Boros Collection and Bunker Berlin

by Max Weintraub | Nov 3, 2011

On View Now | Art as Palimpsest: The Boros Collection and Bunker Berlin

by Max Weintraub | Nov 3, 2011

Located on a relatively quiet street in fashionable Berlin-Mitte stands a hulking, imposing building known as Bunker Berlin. With its stark concrete façade, the daunting structure contrasts sharply with the …

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On View Now | The Curious Case of “Night Scented Stock”

by Max Weintraub | Oct 6, 2011

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On View Now | The Curious Case of “Night Scented Stock”

by Max Weintraub | Oct 6, 2011

Halfway through Night Scented Stock, an exhibition currently on view at Marianne Boesky Gallery’s uptown space in New York City, I found myself standing before an oversized, hairless (save for …

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On View Now | Marlboro Men: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock

by Max Weintraub | Sep 1, 2011

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On View Now | Marlboro Men: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock

by Max Weintraub | Sep 1, 2011

“I am nature.” –Jackson Pollock “We are all a combination of constructions and inventions, a mixture of truth and lies.” —Richard Prince Richard Prince’s new body of work at …

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On View Now | Back to the Future: Xu Bing, “The Living Word,” and the Legacy of 1989

by Max Weintraub | Aug 4, 2011

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On View Now | Back to the Future: Xu Bing, “The Living Word,” and the Legacy of 1989

by Max Weintraub | Aug 4, 2011

Perhaps the most seminal and certainly the most seismic moment in the history of Chinese contemporary art transpired at the National Gallery in Beijing in early February 1989. On the …

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On View Now | An East Wind Swirls in Chelsea, Lately.

by Max Weintraub | Jul 7, 2011

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On View Now | An East Wind Swirls in Chelsea, Lately.

by Max Weintraub | Jul 7, 2011

In his recent show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, Ashley Bickerton, a founding member of the 1980s “Neo-Geo” movement alongside Jeff Koons and Peter Halley, continued his exploration of …

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On View Now | From Ritual to Romance: The Photography of Maxwell Snow

by Max Weintraub | Jun 2, 2011

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On View Now | From Ritual to Romance: The Photography of Maxwell Snow

by Max Weintraub | Jun 2, 2011

In Black Magic at Serieuze Zaken Studioos in Amsterdam, New York-based photographer Max Snow continues to pursue themes that have become the central preoccupations of his photography: beauty, fantasy, mortality. …

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On View Now | Re-Animating Nature: Kota Ezawa’s City of Nature

by Max Weintraub | May 5, 2011

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On View Now | Re-Animating Nature: Kota Ezawa’s City of Nature

by Max Weintraub | May 5, 2011

Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010) opens with a slow-motion shot of waves washing upon a sandy beach. The camera then pans to the protagonist Dom Cobb, played by Leonardo …

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On View Now | Rachel Whiteread: Light Matters

by Max Weintraub | Apr 7, 2011

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On View Now | Rachel Whiteread: Light Matters

by Max Weintraub | Apr 7, 2011

In the vast inventory of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there is a painting that I seek it out whenever possible. It a painting of modest size, yet it is …

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On View Now | The Truth in “True Grit”: Or, Everything I Really Need to Know about Postmodernism I Learned from Joel and Ethan Coen

by Max Weintraub | Mar 3, 2011

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On View Now | The Truth in “True Grit”: Or, Everything I Really Need to Know about Postmodernism I Learned from Joel and Ethan Coen

by Max Weintraub | Mar 3, 2011

In the lead up to this year’s Academy Awards, I found myself on a few occasions defending Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit as something other than simply a good …

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On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 3, 2011

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On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 3, 2011

In the main gallery of Discharge!, Piotr Uklański’s current show at Gagosian Gallery, fourteen vibrantly colored large-scale paintings hang unusually close together on walls covered in equally dynamic wallpaper. The …

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On View Now | The Spaces Between: John Baldessari at the Metropolitan Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 6, 2011

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On View Now | The Spaces Between: John Baldessari at the Metropolitan Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 6, 2011

Every so often, there comes along a retrospective exhibition or mid-career survey that puts to rest whatever doubts I may have had as to where a particular artist sits in …

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On View Now | Mirrors with Memories: The Photographs of Binh Danh

by Max Weintraub | Dec 7, 2010

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On View Now | Mirrors with Memories: The Photographs of Binh Danh

by Max Weintraub | Dec 7, 2010

Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor at the North Carolina Museum of Art reveals Vietnamese born artist Binh Danh’s search to imbue photographs with meaning not only through subject …

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On View Now: Tony Oursler’s Uncanny Bodies

by Max Weintraub | Nov 4, 2010

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On View Now: Tony Oursler’s Uncanny Bodies

by Max Weintraub | Nov 4, 2010

The video artist Tony Oursler is perhaps best known for his video projections of human faces onto the heads of small doll-like bodies. Lying on the ground or hanging limply …

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On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

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On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

For those who enjoy Yoshitomo Nara’s mischievousness characters and pop-culture inspired iconography, or those who are not yet familiar with them, the current show at the Asia Society in New …

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Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

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Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

It was an odd feeling going on my first-ever safari during my recent trip to Tanzania. Odd because even though I had never been on one, I already had a …