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Reviews• March 17, 2015

Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment

By Saelan Twerdy

In the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…

Reviews• March 16, 2015

The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery

By David Balzer

“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…

Features• March 12, 2015

Interview: Venice Biennale Curator Okwui Enwezor On “All the World’s Futures” and the Angel of History

By Coline Milliard

During the London presentation of the 56th Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curator Okwui Enwezor talked a lot about the past. H referenced…

Features• March 10, 2015

“What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon

By Joseph Henry

“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…

Artnet News, Reviews• March 5, 2015

MoMA “Steps on a Nail” with Bad Björk Show

By Ben Davis

There has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…

Reviews• March 3, 2015

The Deadening Gaze of Tal R

By Mitch Speed

Most things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…

Artnet News, Reviews• February 26, 2015

The Figure is Back in New Museum Triennial

By Paddy Johnson

The figure is back. This is the main thesis according to New Museum’s Triennial “Surround Audience,” which offers a near-deafening obsession with the self….

Reviews• February 25, 2015

Janet Werner’s Truer Subject, the Women Unseen

By Sky Goodden

It’s interesting that Janet Werner graduated in the same class as John Currin. It shouldn’t be remarkable, as they’re both statured and fully-arrived painters….