From 1966 until shortly before his death in 2014, On Kawara’s artistic life was anchored by the simple labor of painting the dates of the days he lived through. A selection of roughly 150 of these pai…
In a quote from the press release to this solo show, his first at Paula Cooper, Norwegian-born artist/writer Matias Faldbakken speaks of "try[ing] to suck the air out of the room" with his artworks…
Near the entrance to Ben Schumacher's recent show at Bortolami, "D S + R and the bar at the Orangerie," visitors encountered a large 3-D printer and a somewhat forlorn-looking 9-by-12-inch canvas co…
History repeats itself, particularly when it comes to the subjugation of women. This is one of the lessons to be taken from the work of Nancy Spero, whose artistic output from 1976 onward was dedica…
This politically motivated exhibition took its subtitle from leftist philosopher Herbert Marcuse's assertions about the necessity of challenging not just the dominant sociopolitical order, but, as cu…
Malraux's Shoes (2012), the centerpiece of Dennis Adams's recent solo show, is a 42-minute video in which the artist dons not just the metaphoric footwear but the grandiosity of 20th-century Renaissan…
During the 1980s, Houston-based Mark Flood worked in relative obscurity, creating violent and frequently pornographic artworks which express an antipathy toward commercial culture that is perhaps be…
Recently on view in the project room at Leo Koenig, Julika Rudelius's Rites of Passage (2008) is a two-channel video installation about the fabrication of political persuasiveness.
Christian Jankowski's latest solo show featured an artist who can't see where he's going, a newscaster who doesn't know what she's talking about, a group of critics who have been effectively silenced…