A casual visitor who just wandered into Richard Van Buren's exhibition without glancing at the name on the wall could easily have thought it was a two-person show.
While we art critics have long been living with a sense of diminished influence, it was possible to imagine that at least among MFA students our work still mattered. To discover that this might be an…
Pete Gershon's "Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985" is a hefty, richly illustrated book that examines a tumultuous period in Houston's art history.
Opening on the heels of Martin Kippenberger's death in March 1997 at the age of 43, this show, which had been planned for some time, became an inadvertent memorial exhibition.
With a 1975 series of stacked-line compositions, the painter David Reed began to garner recognition from critics and peers alike. Now those legendary works from his first solo exhibition are on view a…
In Egypt during World War II, a large group of artists embraced the international Surrealist movement, creating locally inflected artworks and manifestos fully abreast of Western aesthetics and…
Although I have long been a fervent admirer of Nahum Tevet, until the recent exhibition “Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass 1972–1975” at Hunter College’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, I knew of the…
In order to forestall harassment from local authorities, Redbud posted a sign in the gallery window reading notice: erotic material during its recent show of work by little-known Chicago artist Berry…