If there’s one word that sums up Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the subject of this massive MoMA exhibition, it’s “struggle.”
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Ashley Garrett’s dynamic pastoral
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Adam Simon and Anton Stankowski: Innovation, replication, mutation
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Godward: Toward a distant target
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “Sharp Edges,” Ben Godward’s mischievously minatory exhibition of sculpture at Slag Gallery, which owner and curator Irina Protopopescu has returned to Chelsea from Bushwick, combines his signature energy and a new urgency. Joyfully petulant color imparted a sidelong élan to his early urethane resin forms […]
Cameron Rowland: Truth that lies between object and text
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / If you’re looking for pure beauty, or merely a tiny aesthetic tingle, Cameron Rowland’s exhibition is not for you. Contemplating his art in an aesthetic sense is as misguided as looking for cooking tips in a boxing match. Granted, the objects he selects for his […]
Mark Joshua Epstein and art’s existential utility
Contributed by Zach Seeger / Mark Joshua Epstein’s quietly inspiring exhibition “A Change in Mood and Weather” in The Skirt Space at Ortega y Gasset Projects embodies the artist’s move away from New York and formal recapitulation of the city in his work. The skirt is an around-the-corner hall of […]
Art and Film: Casimir Nozkowski’s Brooklyn
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Outside Story, writer-director Casimir Nozkowski’s agreeable feature debut, shapes up as a fairly typical indie shaggy-dog story: a mildly dissolute creative type finds himself in a mildly humorous jam that resolves itself over the course of the film in a mildly heartwarming way, preferably […]
