Rachel Wetzler

In the early 1980s, Kenny Scharf, barely out of art school, emerged as a central protagonist of the short-lived, much mythologized East Village scene—a milieu that was celebrated as a neo-neo-avant-garde that collapsed the divide between high and low in its embrace of street culture and, alternately, derided as a bunch of publicity-hungry dilettantes whose bohemian posturing was aimed mostly at the market. By the end of the decade, the scene had been declared dead. Some of its best artists were dead, too... Read more

The three sculptures in Syrian American artist Diana Al-Hadid’s recent exhibition “Falcon’s Fortress” (all 2017) took their cues from timekeeping devices detailed in the book: “candle clocks” in which melting candles would trigger complex systems of counterweights and pulleys to release metal balls from the mouths of falcon figures at certain intervals, marking the hours as they passed... Read more

The works recycle a number of conventional painterly tropes, depicting idyllic landscapes and pretty flowers overlaid with swooping gestural abstractions. .. Read more

Walking through the apparently hijinks-free gallery, I wondered if the artists-now pushing fifty years old-had decided it was finally time to grow up... Read more

Looted art is everywhere in the Kassel portion of Documenta 14, posited as something like the uncanny double of today’s globe-trotting artworks... Read more

Recovering historically neglected artists isn’t just a matter of making their work visible; it also comes with a responsibility to make it legible... Read more

Over the past decade, German-born, Miami-based artist Dara Friedman has made numerous works that apply the techniques of structuralist cinema to the subject of the performing body... Read more

For this exhibition, the Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini bisected Mitchell Innes & Nash's main space with a temporary wall supported by two small, dildolike "sculptures" in Murano glass resting on the floor.  .. Read more

Since the late 1990s, German painter Katharina Grosse has worked almost exclusively with industrial spray guns in lieu of brushes, applying vibrant fields of atomized acrylic to virtually any available surface... Read more

Though Diane Simpson (b. 1935) has been exhibiting steadily in and around her native Chicago since the late 1970s, until recently her work was largely unseen outside of the Midwest... Read more

“All artists are alike,” Dan Graham once said. “They all dream of doing something that’s more social, more collaborative, and more real than art.” Few contemporary artists, however, have followed this desire to act outside the narrow confines of the art world as far as Edi Rama who, since 2013, has held the unusual day job of prime minister of Albania... Read more

For her first exhibition at Dominique Lévy, “Situational Diagram,” Karin Schneider filled both floors of the gallery’s Upper East Side town house with variations on the theme of the black monochrome. For these works (all 2016), Schneider employed a set of specific processes—splitting, cancelling, obstructing, monochroming, extracting, and naming—that conjoined historical forms of abstraction to structuralist theories of power and subjectivity... Read more

Alicja Kwade’s “I Rise Again, Changed but the Same,” her first exhibition at 303 Gallery, comprised an assortment of formal pairings and doppelgängers, with similar objects and materials recurring as the installation unfolded. Dead leaves that flanked the gallery’s entrance—at first seeming simply to have blown in from outside—were followed by other such piles placed around the perimeter of the main room... Read more

Cindy Sherman has come full circle in her new body of work, returning to the trope of the actress performing for the camera, a tacit allusion to the series that made her an art star, the “Untitled Film Stills.” She completed that series in 1980, the same year Metro Pictures opened and began representing her. Fittingly, her latest exhibition inaugurated the gallery’s newly renovated space... Read more