Kashmiri born, London based Raqib Shaw has created his first dazzlingly immersive and multicultural landscape series. Renowned for his alchemy of Oriental opulence and Western Renaissance brilliance, Shaw’s rich cultural heritage and expansive vision imbue this series...
A couple of years after Lynette Yiadom Boakye dazzled New York with her solo show at the New Museum, she returns to the city with 35 new paintings. Both Jack Shainman galleries are showing the oil on linen paintings. Her invented tribe of young, black, mostly male...
Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings first dazzled me when I encountered her work in the 2013 Venice Biennale. The Encyclopaedic Palace, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, included her luminous and unknown (to me) art, along with other visionary artists like Carl Jung,...
“We need her work now more than ever,” Lisa Philips, the New Museum director stated, she continued, “We hope jaws will drop with this exhibition.’ Jaws may not be dropping, but New York critics are united in their praise of Lucas, with Jerry Saltz anointing her “one...
“These landscapes are the foundation of my work.” Ugo Rondinone explains as the last minute details of his current show are being attended to. “ I make small drawings with a radiograph pen. In the beginning, I would use projections, but now I mix the drawings and...
A recent foray into Milan led me to two galleries, both focusing on women’s work. The Pool New York is a relatively new and beautiful gallery space in the city’s financial district. Eteri Chkadua’s first solo show in Milan titled, Guamarjos, translates to the...
New Museum 2018 Triennial: Songs For Sabotage until May 27 This fourth New Museum Triennial has reached far afield from rarefied New York galleries, introducing twenty-six artists between 25-35 years old from nineteen countries. The show is an eclectic and reflection...
There are many superb shows that open the New York art season. Here is a totally random selection of autumnal exhibitions selected by Artlyst's New York contributor Ilka Scobie. John Giorno “Perfect Flowers” at Elizabeth Dee until Nov. 4 Following this summer’s New...
The seventeen new portraits created specifically for the New Museum show continues Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s powerful reinvigoration of figurative painting. I first saw the British-born, Ghanian artist’s work at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and later, in the N.Y.C....