Is Art Criticism Today Too Affirmative? That's the Wrong Question to Be Asking
Sean Tatol's Manhattan Art Review is a bracing new voice in New York art criticism. Ben Davis assesses his manifesto, "Negative Reviews."
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Sean Tatol's Manhattan Art Review is a bracing new voice in New York art criticism. Ben Davis assesses his manifesto, "Negative Reviews."
For more than three decades, Lydia Dona has generated enigmatic abstractions that join together legible and indecipherable parts.
Curated by writer Raphael Rubinstein and artist Heather Bause Rubinstein (whose labyrinthine fabric painting City as Shape (2019) is included in the show), Schema takes up the question of how artists have employed a broad cross-section of diagrammatic forms, from the map and the mandala to the isarithm and the ideogram.
Lydia Dona creates a painterly feminist parable of Platos Cave: across a visceral wonderland of blooming and seething colors in the background, a spiders web of fragmentary imagery creeps along the foreground.
Get set for a diverse art week in New York, from intricate handicrafts to out-of-this-world future frontiers.