Gutai: Splendid Playground
The burst of energy that was Gutai, far from being an isolated Japanese phenomenon following World War II, was akin to Happenings in the U.S. and to Informel, CoBrA and other experimental movements…
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Janet Koplos
Chihiro Minato
This show was a superb dialogue between art and site. The gallery, at the Chohouin Buddhist temple in one of Tokyo's old neighborhoods, is an experience in itself. It is entered through a low door t…
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Noriyuki Haraguchi
While this was not Noriyuki Haraguchi's first New York show, he's little known here, which is not the case in Japan. He was one of the students involved in the important Mono-ha movement in the late…
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Elegance and Flamboyance at the Armory: Walking SOFA
Much of the buzz at the opening night of the 15th edition of the SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art) fair on Thursday, April 19, was in praise of the exhibition design by New York architect D…
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Sharon Louden
In creating a new installation for the reopening last fall of the enlarged Weis- man Art Museum (WAM), artist Sharon Louden was commissioned to take inspiration from the WAM building itself, Frank…
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Yuriko Yamaguchi
Yuriko Yamaguchi’s wall relief Energy gives a searing impression. It suggests a red-hot sun seen from afar or an ember seen up close. A slightly flattened red-and-black circle 10 feet across, it is…
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Alan Shields
This compact survey of Alan Shields’s works from 1974-88 did not seem dated, although Shields (1944-2005) was part of the countercultural and post-Minimalist generation. Maybe because a hands-on est…
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Natural Encounters: Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim
Days before the opening of his painting and sculpture retrospective at the Guggenheim, as visitors watched from a few feet away, Lee Ufan squatted on a square-ish sheet of glass laid atop a steel plat…
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Maki Tamura
Maki Tamura’s recent exhibition at James Harris was both lovely and disconcerting. On the walls, Victorian-style wallpaper featured wreaths and medallions, some painted in with animals or human figu…
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Betty Woodman
"Front/Back," Betty Woodman's first show at Salon 94 in New York, features her signature ceramic forms-vividly painted cylinders with irregularly cut, flat slabs attached as eccentric "handles" or as …
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