Reviews All-American Angst The ominous paintings in Eric Fischl's show "Meditations on Melancholia," inspired by Lars von Trier's apocalyptic film, suggest that the end is nigh. By Jackson Arn Mar 22, 2021 12:16 pm
Reviews Head Case The paintings in George Condo's exhibition "Internal Riot," made in response to the turmoil of 2020, lacked a sense of interiority By Jackson Arn Mar 10, 2021 12:29 pm
Reviews Eyes Like Goya’s A Metropolitan Museum survey of Goya's graphic work balances his reportorial and phantasmagorical ways of seeing. By Jackson Arn Feb 24, 2021 9:51 am
Reviews Consistently Cool "Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings" at Miles McEnery highlights one of the most sustainedly dazzling—and under-recognized—bodies of work in postwar painting. By Jackson Arn Feb 11, 2021 2:23 pm
Reviews Blockbuster Bloat Cindy Sherman's new works at Metro Pictures reveal a talented performer dulled by decades of A-list indulgence. By Jackson Arn Jan 12, 2021 2:06 pm
Reviews Send In the Clowns Jean Dubuffet's monumental sculpture "Le Cirque" belongs to a long tradition of circus-inspired modernist works. By Jackson Arn Dec 17, 2020 3:07 pm
Features Bruegel as Cinema Why so many filmmakers have paid homage to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting The Hunters in the Snow. By Jackson Arn Dec 1, 2020 12:08 pm
Reviews 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. By Jackson Arn Jul 1, 2020 5:42 pm
Reviews 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. By Jackson Arn Jun 24, 2020 8:24 pm
Reviews 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. By Jackson Arn Jun 10, 2020 8:08 pm