Blockbuster Bloat
Cindy Sherman's new works at Metro Pictures reveal a talented performer dulled by decades of A-list indulgence.
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Send In the Clowns
Jean Dubuffet's monumental sculpture "Le Cirque" belongs to a long tradition of circus-inspired modernist works.
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Bruegel as Cinema
Why so many filmmakers have paid homage to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting The Hunters in the Snow.
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A Book Nominally about Rubens Offers an Honest Portrait of the Way the Author’s Mind Works—and Sometimes Doesn’t
Morgan Meis doesn't make points so much as bellow them with varying levels of coherence.
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Giorgio Griffa’s 1990s Paintings Possess a Nervous Energy—Much Like the Decade Itself
Griffa's 1990s paintings hint at something not necessarily good that is yet to come.
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An Exhibition of Works on Paper Shows the Power of an Old-Fashioned Medium
Making art out of fragile, resilient paper in some sense means making art about fragility and resilience.
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Jutta Koether’s Paintings Are Clever and Achingly Cool—But Can They Do More?
The paintings in Jutta Koether's recent exhibition at Lévy Gorvy were cooler than you, quicker than you, smarter than you, better read than you, and not afraid to let you know.
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Kevin Jerome Everson’s Timely Films Explore the Skills Involved in “Unskilled” Labor
The recent showing of Kevin Jerome Everson's work at Andrew Kreps coincided perfectly with the revival of a national conversation involving the clumsy euphemisms of labor—"essential" versus…
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The Top Ten Streaming Films About Artists
Some are works of fiction, some are ostensibly nonfiction, but all ten, without preciousness or corniness, present artistry as a kind of unsolvable riddle.
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Is Peter Saul’s Gross-Out Painting Political?
Peter Saul is an utterly feverish colorist, heir to Bacon and Delacroix, and you can't help but admire his tense, syncopated compositions. But his style is so given to extremes that, almost by…
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