The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty
A common theme haunts descriptions of the Irish artist Brian O’Doherty; to many, he is a protean ghost, transcendent of categories and heedless of…
Read MoreA common theme haunts descriptions of the Irish artist Brian O’Doherty; to many, he is a protean ghost, transcendent of categories and heedless of…
Read MoreAs the spectacle of the 2016 United States presidential elections played out over the summer, Mexico hosted a surreal visit by a well-known, polarizing…
Read MoreThe old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding…
Read MoreIn movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
Read MoreMy first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
Read MoreDuring a month of dispiriting world news, the work first struck me as a room in mourning: an emptiness indifferent to being filled. White…
Read MorePhysically light, Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad (2016) is not underweight on ambition or conceptual ballast. Its creator, Chilean artist Claudio Correa, installed a real-scale brigantine…
Read MoreA year after losing your apartment to a developer’s wrecking ball, after unpacking all the battered paperback and dented pots, the thrift-store nightstands and…
Read MoreAfter a decade or more in which soi-disant curators bestrode the earth like canapé-guzzling colossi, a subtle schism is underway, led by a number…
Read MoreIn the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…
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