ArtSeen
The Keeper
By Jason RosenfeldNew York’s most important exhibiting institution without its own permanent collection is at present featuring a remarkably stimulating show about the act of collection and preservation.
Women of Abstract Expressionism
By Margaret Grahamn the conclusion of his 1983 review of a Lee Krasner retrospective held at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Robert Hughes wrote: “This is an intensely moving exhibition, and it will suggest to all but the most doctrinaire how many revisions of postwar American art history are still waiting to be made.”
JUST TRYING TO FIT IN
DENNIS OPPENHEIM Terrestrial Studio
By William Corwin
Just about everything you need to know about Dennis Oppenheim and his work is expressed in the touching video piece Star Exchange (1970) on view in the indoor gallery at Storm King—part of the expansive indoor and outdoor exhibition of the artist’s work, Terrestrial Studio.
LOVE HAPPENS HERE
Art AIDS America
By Ingrid Dudek
Just inside the entrance to Art AIDS America, Marlon Riggs’s fifty-five minute Tongues Untied (1989) is projected on a large wall within its own gallery, playing on a continuous loop for the duration of the show.
CHUNG SANG-HWA
By Jonathan GoodmanThe Korean artist Chung Sang-Hwa, now in his mid-eighties, is best known as a participant in the Tansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting movement. He has traveled greatly in the West and spent extensive time in Paris, where he first moved in 1967 and likely picked up some of the abstract painting concerns facing Western artists at the time.
PETER PILLER Erscheinungen
By Phillip GriffithA cresting hill forces a sharp incline in the otherwise flat highway. Industrial grays and frontage greens fly by the window in the driver’s periphery. From over the hill, a figure emerges into view, a woman’s outline—an apparition sheathed in a sheer curtain—imposes itself on the landscape.
PHIL COLLINS How to Make a Refugee
By Yasi AlipourDeep within the labyrinthine halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tucked within a makeshift darkroom, Phil Collins’s how to make a refugee (1990) asks hurried visitors to pause.
YOSHIAKI MOCHIZUKI Summer Solstice
By Taney RonigerIn the great chain of being, brute matter has never fared well. Cast as cold, lifeless, and dumb, denizens of the rock, earth, and mineral worlds have long occupied the bottommost rung on the ontological ladder—a ladder that, having been fashioned by us, naturally has human beings somewhere at the top.
TONY OURSLER
By Ann McCoyTony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive consists of 680 items culled from 2,500 photographs, news clippings, books, and assorted objects from the artist’s collection.
The Female Gaze Part II: Women Look at Men
By Alexandra FowleIf criticism manifests most strongly in the face of what is meant to move us forward as a species, one can only imagine what curator John Cheim was expecting for the onset of his most recent exhibition, The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men.
GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA Chronographia
By Michelle StandleyThere’s a young woman sitting in a market stall. Behind her hangs a row of dresses. A small Turkish national flag is draped above one of them. She might be in Istanbul, recently arrived from the countryside.
Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
By Hovey BrockWith 170-plus examples of haute couture and ready-to-wear designs from the 19th century to the 21st, Manus x Machina largely lives up to its ambitious agenda of examining the symbiosis between traditional handcrafted work and technological innovation in fashion’s history.
Voices of a Waking Dream
By Phong BuiHow does an image transfigure? / How fast can it appear before consciousness?
Gabriela Salazar: Eye of Palm
By Elliot J. ReichertIt seems like a betrayal to perceive Gabriela Salazar’s exhibition with the eyes instead of the hands.
Daydream from 2013
By Mira DayalThe basket, also pink, is of a dull and dusty plastic. Somehow it manages to appear soft, as if it could melt into the floor or jiggle with a touch. In a dream, the potatoes might climb out of the basket, don that porcelain crown, and ooze onto the sidewalk.
