The full title of the show is: “Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents.” I happened to be at the museum for other reasons when I stumbled upon this tiny show exhibited in one of the hallways. Running from March 8-August 21, 2011, it includes 20 [...]

I can’t say I have ever been a George Condo fan but I did enjoy the current show of his work at the New Museum. Covering three decades of production, the show can be found on the two top floors. Born in 1957 in New Hampshire, Condo moved to NYC in 1980s and befriended other [...]

Working over the past 40 years Benglis has developed her own “sculptural language.” Since rising to prominence in the 1960s/70s, Benglis has continued to create amazing works that are heavily process based. She began her career as a painter influenced by both minimalism and color field painters. By 1968 she began to pour colored latex [...]

In 1912 Picasso made a guitar out of string, paper, wire, and cardboard. He glued and folded these materials to create an artwork like nothing ever seen before. In 1914, he created a more lasting version in metal. In this short two year time span Picasso went through “an intense period of experimentation.” The show [...]

In 1962 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) began making silkscreen paintings of Pop icons; at this time Warhol was already quite well known. He began working on these just after Marilyn Monroe, one of the biggest Pop stars ever, tragically died. He also began his photobooth portraits at this time.
At the entrance to the exhibition is a film of [...]

Curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco, The Dissolve is a biennial worth visiting if in Santa Fe, but not for the reasons one might think. Twenty-six works by international artists and four works from the early 20th century are on view. The artists selected for the biennial work in a number of mediums, but here, [...]

On the top floor of the Whitney is a quiet, small, and manageable show called “Singular Visions.” This exhibition selects works from the permanent collection and asks viewers who are constantly barraged with images and information in their day to day lives to slow down and take time to engage with the art. Each work is [...]

Paul Thek is an artist I had heard of but did not know much about. At the time of his death in 1988 (he was born in 1933), he was not known by the general public. The title of the show came about because the diver is an image he painted several times. He was [...]

This 13 minute video is set in the Southwest. We see a lone man walking with his dog. This image fades into a ghostly appearance of the two and in the next scene, they have entered a deserted town. The protagonist walks into a trailer and past a run down motel. The only sound we [...]

Born in 1960, LeDray creates sculptures of “astonishing technical facility and poetic resonance.” He makes ceramic vessels, stuffed animals, tailored clothes, and items carved from bone in unrealistic scales. The artist assigns “proportion and size that wil best reinforce their metaphoric significance and expressive potential.” The works have no context or narrative and so the [...]