Archive for February, 2021
By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Twenty years ago, while teaching the craft of art criticism to undergraduate art students, I asked my class to write a review of a show by Karen Kilimnik. The responses were scathing—everything these
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
In a series of 1930s studies of how people behave in museums, Arthur Melton discovered what has since been called “right-turn bias.” When entering a gallery, a large majority of visitors turn right and
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957–1969, by Thomas Crow. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 200 pages.THOMAS CROW’S NEW VOLUME, The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957–1969, is a
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
An art exhibition dealing with the history of violence in the whole of Latin America could never have been other than sprawling. Curated by Magalí Arriola and organized by Museo Amparo in collaboration
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
JAMES BENNING HAS SAID that when he first started making films, in the early 1970s, he was “like a folk artist.” Although he later completed an MFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he initially
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
The sumptuous Park Avenue duplex of coller des bijoux czar Kenneth Jay Lane; Dawnridge, the byzantine Beverly Hills stronghold built by designer and artist Tony Duquette and his wife, Elizabeth Johnstone;
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
THE FOURTH EPISODE of HBO Max’s Spanish-language biopic Veneno (2020) etymologizes its title, the national pet name of Spain’s late trans icon Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez. In the limited
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
The underscore in the title of Peggy Ahwesh’s exhibition “Heart_Land” subtly but unequivocally highlighted the ever-expanding rift between middle America and the rest of the United States, exacerbated
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
I GREW UP IN QUEENS about twenty minutes from Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1964 New York World’s Fair and the home of the Queens Museum, where “The Conference of the Animals” opened last
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By: Art Forum on Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at 11:00 pm
The paintings Walter Price showed in “Pearl Lines” are a joyous combination of the carefree and the committed. Their sensibility is earnest, and their carnivalesque style engaging without looking labored.
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