Painter Ron Gorchov died on August 18, at age ninety. In celebration of his work, we are sharing this review of Gorchov's 2005 solo show at Vito Schnabel.
Virtually from the start of his career, Brian O'Doherty has partnered images and texts in works that explore the limits of visual information and the susceptibility of that information to being…
This year, four curators—Denise Carvalho (the Americas), Friedhelm Mennekes (Europe), Fumio Nanjo (Asia) & Tomasz Wendland each would interpret the theme "the unknown" [through Oct. 30]. The selecte…
In the mid-’90s, the Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Mouléne, known for his large-format, sometimes politically inflected photographs, initiated a parallel project consisting of three-dimensional “objects…
Using stop-action animation, found materials, provocative voiceovers and alternative music, the Pennsylvania artist has developed a weird-folk form of cinema and live performance.
This exhibition of 14 welded-metal sculptures, reflecting Melvin Edwards’s work over the last four decades, contained many pieces not previously exhibited or not shown for quite some time. The earli…
The word “swell” can refer to a ridge-shaped formation that moves across the surface of a liquid or, as a slang adjective, indicate that something (or someone) is remarkably fine. Both meanings were…
Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) was born in Hungary and moved to France in 1948. In the early 1960s, wishing to increase the degree of both chance and objectivity in his work, he developed his signature te…
The long overlooked role of women in Pop art is explored in "Seductive Subversion," a traveling show that encompasses the work of 65 international artists.
Like many other artists who emerged during the 1990s heyday of poststructuralist semiotics and institutional critique, Lincoln Tobier, born in 1964 in New York and currently working in Los Angeles…