On View Now

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

On View Now

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 …

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On View Now: Bruce Nauman and the Days of Our Lives

by Max Weintraub | Aug 6, 2010

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On View Now: Bruce Nauman and the Days of Our Lives

by Max Weintraub | Aug 6, 2010

Having written my dissertation on the art of Bruce Nauman, I often find myself fielding questions from confused, even perturbed friends or acquaintances seeking to make sense of his art.  …

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Art21 Extended Play

On View Now | Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Representing the Holocaust through Comics

by Max Weintraub | Jul 1, 2010

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Art21 Extended Play

On View Now | Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Representing the Holocaust through Comics

by Max Weintraub | Jul 1, 2010

The act of codification that is enshrined in the International Declaration of Human Rights has ensured that the unspeakable has been cut down to size at the very moment that …

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New column! On View Now

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 1, 2010

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New column! On View Now

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 1, 2010

What better way to kick off this first day of July than with a new column (one of two, in fact)? We are pleased to introduce On View Now. Written …