• Paul Kneale’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013

      Monday, 27 January 2014 09:00

      Paul Kneale is an artist and writer based in London. Kneale’s upcoming shows and projects include Art Gallery of Ontario, Galleries, Lafayette Paris, and/or London. He co­runs Library+ project space and plays in the band TINA. Here are his selections for the best shows of last year. 1. Morag Keil, Potpourri at Cubitt Gallery, London Consisting of a single video that was also available online, positioning a visit to the space as nearly redundant. snippets of dialog from a celeb sex tape rehearsed in mundane settings who’s filming seemed alternately meticulous and distracted. HD/SD. Choices. A strobe light held on a moving motorcycle.  This video somehow unsettled me more than anything I’ve seen recently on […]

    • Claudia Eve Beauchesne’s Top 5 shows of 2013

      Friday, 24 January 2014 09:00

      Claudia Eve Beauchesne is an art historian, writer and curator. She is currently curator of programming at Formats in Montreal, Canada, and is working on a non-fiction book about the East Village art scene of the 1980s. Her writing on contemporary art, cinema and popular culture has appeared in NY Arts, Packet, Kolaj, I Love Bad Movies, and Come on Down. […]

    • Leah Oates Talks Work with Maddy Rosenberg

      Thursday, 23 January 2014 15:51

      Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Maddy Rosenberg: I can’t say I was conscious of a point where I “became” an artist, as I don’t remember a time when I didn’t make art. I would spend time after school or during summer breaks designing and constructing puppet […]

    • Stephen Knudsen’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013

      Tuesday, 21 January 2014 09:02

      Stephen Knudsen is an artist and professor of painting at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the senior editor of ARTPULSE Magazine, a contributing writer to the Huffington Post, NY Arts Magazine, and Hyperallergic. He is the senior editor of the anthology the Art of Critique, forthcoming in 2014. Here are his selections from 2013: 1. Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Olentoja (Creatures) at […]

    • The Phantom: John O’Connor’s “Machine and the Ghost”

      Monday, 20 January 2014 09:00

      How persistent is the wish to somehow find a human face in whatever kind of art—to see a real presence there that invites us to know its secrets and enjoy its troubles? How powerful is that illusion of a real presence, when a ramshackle and effaced effigy, an ugly or beautiful scarecrow clothed and stuffed […]

    • Jake and Dinos Chapman At Serpentine Sackler Gallery

      Friday, 17 January 2014 09:00

      “We are sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons … disenfranchised aristocrats, under siege from our feudal heritage … our bread is buttered on both sides …” this was stenciled on the gallery wall as the artists introduction to the world over twenty years ago—fledglings from the nest of Gilbert & George, having once been their art technicians—yet arriving […]

    • Charlotte Meyer’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013

      Thursday, 16 January 2014 09:00

      Charlotte Meyer lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., graduated from Pratt Institute in 2009, and received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in recognition of the school. She is a Visiting Critic at R.I.S.D. is represented by Opus Projects, and is scheduled to exhibit new work at the Chelsea location in 2014. Here are her favorite shows of this […]

    • Muted Beauty: Russell Tyler at DCKT Contemporary

      Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:00

      Russell Tyler’s Solo show at DCKT in the LES returns back in the direction of bad painting but stops midway at a comfortable apex. He has come a long way since I first saw his work at Freight and Volume in 2010. I remember clearly thinking about Kim Dorland when I saw Tyler’s paintings at […]

    • Rosalind Nashashibi’s The Painter and the Deliveryman

      Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:00

      With The Painter and the Deliveryman Rosalind Nashashibi offers a play on motifs, causality and narrative. Arriving at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, the visitor is greeted by the emptiness of the ground floor gallery, a spacious white-walled and concrete-floored contemporary art space with large windows overlooking a small courtyard. The two 16mm films that give […]

    • Keith J. Varadi’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013

      Monday, 13 January 2014 09:00

      Keith J. Varadi is an artist, writer, and curator currently based in Los Angeles. He is a co-founder and member of the collective, Picture Menu. Here are his selections for the best shows of 2013:  1. Larry Bamburg, BurlsHoovesandShells at Simone Subal Gallery, New York Jerry-rigged ecosystems, towers constructed from bones and gold, and artificial earth compositions […]