Upon entering The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900-1950, an exhibition of works on paper at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, I was quick to dismiss it as pro forma and predictable, the result not of curatorial necessity but of the gallery’s spring cleaning of its storage racks. Another tasteful array of yesterday’s merchandise: Who Read More
The sculpture of Michael Steiner, currently the subject of
an exhibition at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, is so resolute in its rigor that
one is likely to overlook how funny it is. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but dry
and droll, deeply comical. While loyal to the tradition of Constructivism, as
well as deferential to the blunt certainties of Read More
I see that, in the press release for the current exhibition of sculpture by Tony Smith (1912-1980) and Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987) at Hirschl & Adler Modern, it is claimed that Smith “is often thought to be the father of Minimal sculpture.” Indeed, a work called Die , which was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Read More
