Barry Schwabsky

The art of Joan Jonas

“What I Want” was the title of the recent exhibition of eight abstract paintings by Brooklyn-based Canadian artist Ang Ziqi Zhang, and there was something appropriate in the implicit accent on desiring rather than attaining or possessing, for Ziqi Zhang seems to like keeping things a little undefined, tantalizingly elusive

The show comprised seven pieces made between 2002 and 2011, five of which were untitled, plus two from the 1960s.

The painter turns to assemblage at Artists Space

Sophie von Hellermann’s canvases eschew the sense of authority that goes along with solid monumental forms and stable symmetrical composition.

The diagrammatic evidently has something in common with the flattened planes of modernist abstraction, but the two are not necessarily synonymous.

An exhibition of new paintings by Adrianne Ruby

Tino Sehgal calls his works, which have been devised primarily for presentations in art museums rather than theaters, “constructed situations.” Others have taken to describing them as “living sculp…

Having collaborated between 1998 and 2006 as Artlab, not only as makers of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations but as presenters of the work of others, Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine…

Robert Colescott, Eat Dem Taters, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 59 × 79″. A DECADE AFTER HIS DEATH, Robert Colescott is still mostly known for his paintings of “the old masters…