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Casey Ruble

Terry Adkins

The objective of "Nenuphar," an exhibition by Terry Adkins mounted at both of Salon 94's downtown galleries, was to illuminate similarities between two very different men: Yves Klein, the French Nou…

Melanie Willhide

When photographer Melanie Willhide's home was burglarized in the spring of 2010, the artist assumed that many years' worth of her work, stored on her computer, was lost for good. Police did eventual…

Tommy Hartung

Jacob Bronowski’s documentary series “The Ascent of Man”—the focus of Tommy Hartung’s first show at On Stellar Rays, in 2009—culminates in Crick and Watson’s discovery of the secret of life. And one c…

We Regret To Inform You

The press release for the group show “We Regret To Inform You There Is Currently No Space Or Place For Abstract Painting” (the bulk of which comprised—you guessed it!—contemporary abstract painting) c…

Christian Marclay

Certain moments nearly everyone remembers: where you were, for instance, at 8:46 am on September 11, 2001. Other moments are more forgettable: what you were doing, say, last Tuesday at 6:32 pm. Chri

Mamma Andersson

The dead man in Karin Mamma Andersson's Kitchen Fight sprawls across the painting, yet it takes several minutes to realize he is even there. And judging by the way viewers casually glanced at the…

Nari Ward

Tackling the multivalent subject of support—with its implication of preexisting threat—“LIVESupport,” Nari Ward’s first solo show at Lehmann Maupin, included a roomful of sculptures (all works 2010)…

Superflex

Blame capitalism. Blame Bush. Blame Goldman Sachs. You needn’t have watched Michael Moore’s documentaries to know that much reportage on crises resorts to finger-pointing, and although that impulse…

Mungo Thomson

Long interested in both the subtext and paratext of, well, everything—from Road Runner cartoons to NASA images of outer space—Mungo Thomson has built a career on pulling back curtains to reveal the me…

Tim Rollins + K.O.S.

In 1982, when Tim Rollins harnessed the creative potential of a group of special-needs students at a South Bronx public school, where he then taught, to begin a collaboration that would span more than…

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