There’s a small, inspired exhibition cocooned inside “30 Seconds Off an Inch,” an exhibition of 60 disparate artworks by 42 artists at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Similarly, its catalog essay, while convoluted and sometimes sophomoric, takes a refreshingly visual, even formal approach to art that is usually admired exclusively for its political and social [...]
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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty The exhibition of recent works by this Swiss-born sculptor at the New Museum includes “Service à la Française,” a 51-piece installation on the second floor.
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: October 29, 2009
The sculptor Urs Fischer is hot, young and European. When it comes to installation art, he is [...]
By Roberta Smith
“American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915” is a wild ride. It fills nine galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with 103 paintings that the museum calls “iconic.” Generally the claim is justified. As it trundles through 150 crucial years of American life and art, the show, which opened on Monday, provides [...]
By Roberta Smith
IN an often quoted remark the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman once said, “Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds.” I wonder what Newman would make of the overflow of M.F.A.-bearing would-be artists pouring out of art schools and universities these days. Maybe he’d say, “An artist without a graduate degree is [...]
By Roberta Smith
“No one is doing well,” snapped the New York dealer Michele Maccarone over the phone. “And anyone who says they are is lying.” Ms. Maccarone, who has had a gallery for eight years, first on the Lower East Side and now on Greenwich Street in the West Village, is known for showing challenging [...]
