Artists included in major biennial exhibitions, like the ones opening in Venice and at the Whitney Museum in New York this month, can find themselves subject to countervailing expectations. These…
EJ Hill stood at the far end of his installation in the Hammer Museum's apse-like Vault Gallery, where the altar would be if this were an actual cathedral. He occupied the highest spot on the kind of…
I love the elasticity of a summer group exhibition; it's a low-stakes, high-reward format that, when done well, can produce the most exciting viewing experiences at New York galleries.
Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was…