Amy Granat’s interest in making a silent film version of Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky seems to have been prompted by the visual atmosphere against which the three main characters’ turbulent…
In 2005, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) was catapulted into the permanent collection of MoMA with its acquisition of over 40 drawings by him, part of the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Colle…
The tightly edited survey of Gabriel Orozco's major works, on view at MoMA, is an exercise in calculated futility made to illustrate the artist's oft-repeated aim to frustrate, "the expectations of th…
Tauba Auerbach's dizzying, opt-art minded work draws influence from many sources, from the stark graphic designs of Alexander Girard to Guy de Cointet's linguistic musings. Working across a variety of…
When a major museum decides to absorb a collection as a gift, the inherent question of its owner's taste -- a tar pit of concerns that are nonetheless significant in interpreting its selection and for…
The ten graphite drawings and one salt sculpture that compose Banks Violette's latest exhibition at Team Gallery, Not Yet Titled, are haunting creations; they're attempts to breathe life into subjects…
If New York City could be compared to Florence in the throes of the Renaissance then Robert Lazzarini could be from either world, a Renaissance maestro of yesteryear or a commercially successful artis…
Upon entering the P.S. 1 exhibition "Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or," one is greeted by an official portrait of President George W. Bush. The framed headshot, with the naïve, toothy grin, salt and pepper h…
London-born, LA-based artist Walead Beshty's recent exhibition of photographs, entitled "Popular Mechanics," is a meditation on the intermediaries of art making.