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Rachel Wetzler

Cynthia Talmadge

by Rachel Wetzler

Feb 01, 2019
Dangling on the walls from matching silk cords were eight new paintings by Cynthia Talmadge, each rendering a different view of the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel’s facade in an exacting pointillism... Read more

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Lisa Yuskavage

by Rachel Wetzler

Jan 01, 2019
Is Lisa Yuskavage a feminist? When she began exhibiting her candy-colored paintings of barely legal pinups in the early 1990s, it was a question that endlessly preoccupied critics... Read more

Charline von Heyl

by Rachel Wetzler

Dec 01, 2018
Charline von Heyl’s oeuvre is characterized by its elusiveness: over the past three decades, she has persistently refused to develop a cohesive style, instead moving freely between disparate painterly modes... Read more

Gertrude Abercrombie

by Rachel Wetzler

Nov 01, 2018
During the 1940s and ’50s, the Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977) was known locally as the “queen of the bohemian artists.”.. Read more

Banks Violette

by Rachel Wetzler

Nov 01, 2018
In the early 2000s, Banks Violette was everywhere: in sold-out gallery shows, in the Whitney Biennial, in the pages of the New York Times Style section... Read more

Personal Monuments

by Rachel Wetzler

Oct 01, 2018
Ursula von Rydingsvard treats the regularity of the grid as a point of departure, something to be manipulated and made strange. .. Read more

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Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art

by Rachel Wetzler

Oct 01, 2018
The inaugural edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More,” is titled after a 2005 book by the anthropologist Alexei Yurchak addressing the inherent paradox underlying the Soviet experience of Communism’s end. .. Read more

Berlin Biennale

by Rachel Wetzler

Sep 01, 2018
Curator Gabi Ngcobo opens her introductory essay for the catalogue of the tenth Berlin Biennale by invoking an empty pedestal: that which once held a statue commemorating the nineteenth-century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes that was taken down at the University of Cape Town as a result of the Rhodes Must Fall protests, which swept South African and British universities in 2015... Read more

Gut Renovation

by Rachel Wetzler

Mar 01, 2018
Matta-Clark often used the term “anarchitecture” to express his approach to the built environment... Read more

Kenny Scharf

by Rachel Wetzler

Feb 01, 2018
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

Diana Al-Hadid

by Rachel Wetzler

Dec 04, 2017
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

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Petra Cortright

by Rachel Wetzler

Oct 24, 2017
The works recycle a number of conventional painterly tropes, depicting idyllic landscapes and pretty flowers overlaid with swooping gestural abstractions. .. Read more

Gelatin

by Rachel Wetzler

Sep 26, 2017
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

Critical Eye: Kassel: Dislocated Loot

by Rachel Wetzler

Aug 30, 2017
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

“With the Eyes of Others: Hungarian Artists of the Sixties and Seventies”

by Rachel Wetzler

Aug 23, 2017
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

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