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Reviews of current exhibitions, with a focus on the New York art scene

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Cloth is a Battleground in Stephanie Syjuco’s “CITIZENS”

by Anna Burckhardt | Oct 13, 2017

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Cloth is a Battleground in Stephanie Syjuco’s “CITIZENS”

by Anna Burckhardt | Oct 13, 2017

In Stephanie Syjuco’s “CITIZENS,” textiles and cloth become signifiers of the battles over patriotism and identity.

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Philadelphia Illuminated

by Heather Holmes | Sep 19, 2017

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Philadelphia Illuminated

by Heather Holmes | Sep 19, 2017

Philadelphia writer Heather Holmes offers her thoughts on Cai Guo-Qiang’s public art project “Fireflies,” in which 27 pedicabs lit with Chinese lanterns circle Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Climate Change & Data Drawings: An Interview with Maya Lin

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 8, 2017

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Climate Change & Data Drawings: An Interview with Maya Lin

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 8, 2017

Maya Lin discusses hurricanes and climate change in relation to the work in her new show, “Ebb and Flow,” opening today at Pace Gallery.

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Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

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Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

Slovakian artist Tomáš Rafa’s latest film documents scenes of protests throughout the Balkans and Central Europe, capturing complexities regardless of politics.

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Tracing the Out-of-Sight: Cristina Camacho’s Symmetrical Tensions

by Anna Burckhardt | Apr 12, 2017

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Tracing the Out-of-Sight: Cristina Camacho’s Symmetrical Tensions

by Anna Burckhardt | Apr 12, 2017

Anna Burckhardt explores the process and motivations behind the anthropomorphic symmetry in Cristina Camacho’s painting series, “Bilateral Dissections.”

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Meriem Bennani’s Holiday Headscarf

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 17, 2017

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Meriem Bennani’s Holiday Headscarf

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 17, 2017

Playing on the Barclays Center’s “Oculus” screen through March 5 as part of the Public Art Fund’s “Commercial Break” series, Meriem Bennani’s 30-second video piece “Your Year by Fardaous Funjab,” features an ‘advertisement’ for the artist’s fictional hijab design.

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ICP’s Momentous and Magnificent Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change

by Rachel Heidenry | Feb 2, 2017

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ICP’s Momentous and Magnificent Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change

by Rachel Heidenry | Feb 2, 2017

Rachel Heidenry reviews the exhibition “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” at the International Center of Photography, on view through May 7, 2017.

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Mastry: A Complex Portrait of Kerry James Marshall

by Jared Quinton | Dec 14, 2016

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Mastry: A Complex Portrait of Kerry James Marshall

by Jared Quinton | Dec 14, 2016

Jared Quinton reviews Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry,” a retrospective comprised of nearly 80 works that span the artist’s 35-year career.

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Ambivalent Pleasures: A Conversation with Jesse McKee

by Lee Plested | Dec 12, 2016

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Ambivalent Pleasures: A Conversation with Jesse McKee

by Lee Plested | Dec 12, 2016

Guest editor Lee Plested interviews curator Jesse McKee, who organized the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current survey of local practices, “Ambivalent Pleasures.”

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Two Exhibitions Show Artists Grappling with the Ravages of AIDS

by Jared Quinton | Aug 12, 2016

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Two Exhibitions Show Artists Grappling with the Ravages of AIDS

by Jared Quinton | Aug 12, 2016

Jared Quinton reviews two exhibitions on view in New York: “Art AIDS America” at the Bronx Museum and “Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” at MoMA.

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Rodney McMillian’s Sobering, Irreverent Take on Race in America

by Jared Quinton | May 2, 2016

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Rodney McMillian’s Sobering, Irreverent Take on Race in America

by Jared Quinton | May 2, 2016

ART21 Magazine’s latest contributor reviews two concurrent exhibitions of work by Rodney McMillian on view in New York City.

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Transcendent Tapestries: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum

by Max Weintraub | Aug 7, 2013

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

  “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

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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.  …