Irina Sheynfeld 10/16/23 Irina Sheynfeld 10/16/23

When death entered the garden

Patterson is a young artist from Jamaica and she describes her practice in terms of post-colonial critique, – vultures represent colonizing nations and tiny almost translucent body parts, that are scattered throughout the flower beds, stand in for Black and indigenous people that were annihilated or otherwise brutally exploited.

Irina Sheynfeld 2/21/23 Irina Sheynfeld 2/21/23

Unsupervised AI at MoMA

A monumental site-specific digital work Unsupervised by Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is now displayed at MoMA until April 15. A massive LED wall in the museum’s lobby displays AI’s art, which is accompanied by dramatic ambient sound. Anadol’s website explains that Unsupervised is part of Anadol Studio’s ongoing project Hallucinations.

Irina Sheynfeld 9/17/22 Irina Sheynfeld 9/17/22

Sad Rapper at Kasmin

Vanessa German is an American sculptor, poet, and performance artist. Her multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting, and fashion design. Right now her solo show that consists of her latest work, Sad Rapper is on view at Kasmin gallery until October 22.

Irina Sheynfeld 5/3/22 Irina Sheynfeld 5/3/22

Wild Spring at Acquavella

Curated by Todd Bradway Unnatural Nature. Post-Pop Landscapes is a group show that includes 28 contemporary artists.

Irina Sheynfeld 2/15/22 Irina Sheynfeld 2/15/22

Le cadavre exquis lives to see another day

A small but elegant exhibition Surrealist Collaboration: Poetry, Art, Literature, Ingenuity and Life Itself, is now on view at Kasmin at 297 Tenth Avenue until February 26, 2022. It includes 20 works on paper along with photographs, documents, and films. Perhaps the most interesting pieces in the show are the collaborative drawings that resulted from surrealists playing le Cadavre exquis game.

Irina Sheynfeld 1/14/22 Irina Sheynfeld 1/14/22

Sophie Taeuber: Breaching the Boundaries

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Living Abstraction is currently on display at MoMA. Tabernacle-Arp’s artistic practice is incredibly diverse, throughout her life she daringly crossed the boundaries between fine, applied, and performing arts. The artist also brought together elements of different mediums and modes of artistic expression.

Irina Sheynfeld 8/6/21 Irina Sheynfeld 8/6/21

Shattered Worlds

The theme of the broken world is a popular one this summer. Sarah Sze’s (b. 1969) and Glenn Kaino’s (b. 1972) delve into the post-apocalyptic visions of our present and near future.

Irina Sheynfeld 7/10/21 Irina Sheynfeld 7/10/21

Louise Bourgeois: Her Own Daughter

Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter is an interesting if somewhat limiting biographical presentation of more than fifty works by French American artist at The Jewish Museum. Show examines the artist's output through the lens of her relationship with psychoanalysis.

Irina Sheynfeld 6/10/21 Irina Sheynfeld 6/10/21

Alice Neel: Undead and Loving It

Today, either realism managed to escape its political associations with socialism, or such dubious bedfellows are no longer problematic for Alice Neel: People Come First is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until August 1.

Irina Sheynfeld 5/19/21 Irina Sheynfeld 5/19/21

Alexander Calder: A Flight of Fancy

Irina Sheynfeld 4/21/21 Irina Sheynfeld 4/21/21

Niki de Saint-Phalle: Agony and Ecstasy

The artist's first major US exhibition, Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life, featuring over 200 works, is now open at MoMA P.S.1

Irina Sheynfeld 4/7/21 Irina Sheynfeld 4/7/21

Julie Mehretu: Story Maps of No Location

Julie Mehretu’s first major mid-career retrospective is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It follows the artist’s career from the delicate drawings which she made in the nineties after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design and follows the development of her visual vocabulary up until the present with the site-specific Ghosthymn (After the Raft)(2019-21), created for Whitney’s space on the fifth floor, that looks out onto the Hudson river like a deck of a ship.

Irina Sheynfeld 3/18/21 Irina Sheynfeld 3/18/21

Philip Guston: Why not now?

In the summer of 2020, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC postponed the Philip Guston (1913-1980) retrospective Philip Guston Now. Why is this?

Irina Sheynfeld 2/28/21 Irina Sheynfeld 2/28/21

KAWS: Eyes wide shut

KAWS: WHAT PARTY is currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The artist Brian Donnelly, who goes by the name KAWS, first became popular in Asia before he gained the art world’s acceptance in the West. As visitors move through the show, they enter the realm dominated by the Companion, a character Donnelly invented in the mid-nineties. The faces of both the giant and tiny Companion iterations are subsumed by something like death masks, their eyes are X’ed out.

Irina Sheynfeld 1/1/21 Irina Sheynfeld 1/1/21

Inexpressible banality of Evil in Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau Paintings

The Birkenau paintings by Gerhard Richter are on view now at the Robert Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.