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Celebrity can be problematic. In fact, celebrity is one of the most poisonous influences on individual and collective human psychology at work in contemporary society, undermining the concept of individual creative autonomy as it unilaterally erases millennia-old...
Luke ButlerI can see Luke Butler hanging out with Montgomery Clift and Liz Taylor, sipping daiquiris by the lake-house with not a care in the world, but then all great movies must come to “an end.” Butler specializes in these two powerfully evocative little words...
Materially Defined All art has corporeal form, and must be “made” of something, and in the case of “Materially Defined,” at CMay Gallery, the literal materials themselves dictate the greater metaphorical meaning of the individual works in the exhibition. Macha...
Rachel Kastor: Ambitious ImplementsRachel Kaster creates startlingly effective visual conversations between seemingly disparate objects including glass, found wood and bronze. Many of Kastor’s visual relationships depend on tangible visceral associations; glass is so...
I am so glad I made sure to see the just-visiting Jackson Pollock painting at the Getty before it leaves this weekend—I did procrastinate a little. The painting, Mural (1943) has been at the Getty for an extended facelift. It’s now beautifully restored and has been on...
Rachel Lauren KasterRachel Kaster creates startlingly effective visual conversations between seemingly disparate objects including glass, found wood and bronze. Many of Kaster’s visual relationships depend on tangible visceral associations; glass is so fragile, yet...
The first object one encounters upon entering Jaime Scholnick’s exhibition at CB1 Gallery is Redesigned, Repurposed, Re-everythinged (2014), a computer numerical control-milled walnut sculpture replica of Styrofoam packaging material that protects a MacBook Pro during...
“Ai Weiwei: According to What?” at the Brooklyn Museum opens the parameters for making and defining art by referencing contemporary China and the artist’s struggles as a political dissident.Ai’s relentless tweets, blogs, and photographic chronicling are an ongoing...
Night Terrors And Day Dreams Edgar Allen Poe, the undisputed master of darkness once said, “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night,” suggesting that the light can be a necessary benediction just as the dark...
Mary Weatherford Mary Weatherford’s first exhibition at David Kordansky finds its roots in the powerful gestural mark making of artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. These powerful large-scale paintings conflate the loose semi autonomic gestural...