Archive for December, 2019
By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Born in Niigata, Japan, in 1945, E’wao Kagoshima has been a New Yorker since 1976. Working in a manner that combined aspects of Symbolism and Pop into an unstable cocktail of seductive decadence and a
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Curated by Ann Temkin and Yasmil Raymond with Tamar Margalit and Erica CookeThis spring, the sole Donald Judd retrospective in the US in three decades—titled “Judd,” in perfect step with the artist’s
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
I MET HUANG YONG PING for the first time over lunch in Guangzhou one Saturday in October 2002. He arrived fresh from the emergency room, having cut his hand that morning while collaborating with a
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Eros rides a dolphin or a swan—or else a crab, a snail, a dove, a lion, an aquatic goat, a unicorn-drawn chariot, a turtle. I thought about this history of images while reading of a man’s devotion to
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
IN 1989, Huang Yong Ping traveled to France at the Centre Pompidou’s invitation to take part in Jean-Hubert Martin’s “Magiciens de la terre,” widely remembered as the “first truly international
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Jacolby Satterwhite’s kaleidoscopically immoderate show at Pioneer Works was built from a million little things that ultimately boiled down to a couple of big things. The exhibition was a trippy two-way
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
1. I REMEMBER driving away from Tanglewood one summer night in 1987 after having heard Jessye Norman sing a concert performance of Salome’s last scene, a soprano’s autoerotic orgy with the head of
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
His may not yet be a household name, but Ronnie Landfield is one of the best abstract painters in America. Since the late 1960s, Landfield’s paintings have been defined by billowing stains of color,
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
EVEN AS RIHANNA promotes the nonbinary clothing line Art School and the critique of heteronormativity goes increasingly mainstream, masculinity is still permitted to present itself as a default.
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Tatiana Trouvé’s first exhibition in Los Angeles opens on a fantastical scene, stage-managed with imposing verisimilitude: The concrete floor of Gagosian’s front gallery seems to have been fractured by
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