#criticspick

[berrycampbell]

CRITIC’S PICK. Former arts writer for Time Magazine, Piri Halasz, picks her favorite James Walsh painting from his solo exhibition “THE ELEMENTAL” at Berry Campbell. “‘Flint Sky’ is built up with paint through its middle again, but with a matching top and bottom of thin and thinner bands of black, which read as medium grays and serve as backdrop for the main action. Below the top pale black introductory area, and across the middle of this canvas, all kinds of things are going on, unified by violent, horizontally swiveling strokes of paint. We see thick combos of soft blue and green, small inserts of white, and then more violently zig-zagging horizontal sweeps of blue and black of tremendous force--highlighted by narrow lines of red & white. Finally at the bottom of all of this, we get an area of rust, superimposed before the quiet field of light black at the base of the painting saves the whole from sinking down to drown in some sort of mythological whirlpool. “ [James Walsh “FLINT SKY” 2019 acrylic on canvas 36 x 30 inches] #jameswalsh #jimwalsh #flintsky #soloexhibition #criticspick #pirihalasz #timemagazine #theelemental #acrylicpainting #sculpturalpainting #colorpainting #3dart #chelseagalleries #nycart #contemporaryart #artistrepresentation #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7z7WpmFoeO/?igshid=38tcumk4rs54

[lowellryanprojects]

Thank you @artforum and @danieljgerwin for a wonderful review 🙌 ARTFORUM ERIN TREFRY, LOWELL RYAN PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES, THRU OCT 12 Erin Trefry kept her brushes heavily loaded to make the four large paintings on view in “If the Moon Turns Green,” her first solo presentation and the sixth exhibition at the new Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles. Each canvas is dominated by a tangled armature delineated by thick ribbons of paint. In three of the paintings, the central form appears to be partly a complex architectural idea and partly some fantastical beast determined to lay waste to the nearest town. Shoelaces detail the edges of some shapes while ceramic shards are embedded in the thick impasto, lending a sedimentary quality to these gothic pictures. On the floor nearby are four small ceramic towers whose haphazard construction seems to defy physics; they could be props from a Tim Burton film. Nine assemblages, hung on the wall, are mounted on stretched pleather, linen, denim, and other fabrics. These Frankensteinian monsters are made of deconstructed and abstracted found materials—sweatshirts, purse handles, shoes, furniture components—largely scavenged from the possessions of Trefry’s family members, both living and dead. Often bristling with zip ties or sharp ceramic elements and involving plenty of leather, they are dark in palette and suggestive of s/m gear, dangerous insects, faces, masks, and orchids flattened between the pages of a book. Their tenebrous colors and protruding exoskeletons echo the paintings’ moodiness and spatial linework. Trefry’s concatenations are fetish objects in both sexual and sacral senses. And following the African sculptural tradition of materializing the spiritual (to which Trefry’s sculptures are surely indebted), the works resemble talismans, conferring the protective power of dead ancestors through the life force captured in their belongings. — Daniel Gerwin Image: Erin Trefry, spirits muse and envelop the torso with winged victory, 2017–19, stoneware, purse handles, fabric, drawer pulls, zip ties, 25 x 24 x 9 inches #artforum #criticspick #artsmagazine #danieljgerwin #erintrefry #lowellryanprojects #ifthemoonturnsg (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2w03qjneSg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[boxblur--ccg]

Two gallery artist’s in the New York Times this week. @lenkaclaytonstudio and @ninakatchadourian I could not feel more proud of them. @cclarkgallery @maraaltman #artistresidencyinmotherhood #arim @invisible.flaneuse #criticspick #cumulus @nytimes @wattisarts @pacegallery https://www.instagram.com/p/CPcyJqtFApJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ingridchu]

Taking time for a little “Magick” -- The opportunity to see and write about #Art in #HongKong certainly seems to be among “natures miracles” right now and appropriate for my first contribution to #Artforum and #Artforum艺术论坛 :

Artforum.com: https://www.artforum.com/picks/anonymous-society-for-magick-83030

Artforum 艺术论坛: https://www.artforum.com.cn/picks/12812

#CriticsPick #AnonymousSocietyForMagick #ChenWei #HaoJingban #LamTungPang #WangTuo #TrevorYeung #YingKwok #BlindspotGallery (at Hong Kong)

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[deborahbrownfineart]

[nyphil]

🚨 High DRAMA alert 🚨 From last night: The fully-staged production of Schoenberg’s “Erwartung” and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” is a @nytimes Critic's Pick! Find out for yourself why the production has everyone buzzing! ✅ Powerhouse performances by Katarina Karnéus as die Frau in “Erwartung,” by Nina Stemme as Judith and Johannes Martin Kränzle as Duke Bluebeard in “Bluebeard’s Castle,” and by Jaap van Zweden and the Orchestra. ✅ Director / set and lighting designer Bengt Gomér brings in surrealistic elements to the two psycho-dramas. ✅ Two dark stories brought together in this US Stage Premiere production. #nyphil #nyphilharmonic #bluebeardscastle #erwartung #orchestra #criticspick #castlelife 📷: @chrisleephotonyc, #chrisleephoto (at New York Philharmonic) https://www.instagram.com/p/B27Js1whAaV/?igshid=6f1ibvu9pxcp

[arraynow]

Extra, extra! Have you heard? The New York Times is watching THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD directed by @damanibaker! Now playing on #Netflix! Queue it today! #documentaryfilm #nowplaying #indiefilm #grenada #criticspick

[operaeoperanews]

❤❤👋👋🤗🤗👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹 Anita and Greg... . #Repost @metopera • • • • • As Samson and Dalila, mezzo-soprano @anitarachvelishvili and @gregory_kunde_tenor deliver “combustible” (@nytimes) chemistry in Saint-Saëns sensual biblical epic. Only one performance remains featuring this star duo: tomorrow, March 23. Photos by Ken Howard / Met Opera #MetOpera #Opera #SaintSaëns #SamsonetDalila #CriticsPick #operaeopera https://www.instagram.com/p/BvUN2wBBHbu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bbs4r6r5qek7

[my-fave-places]

If you like a darkly comedic and fantastical R-rated puppet musical with poignant insights into consumerism, politics, morality and human rights, then Made in China is just your cup of tea. Link in bio to the full review and details: http://bit.ly/MFPinChina Playing until 19 Feb 2017. @wakkawakkaprods #humanrights #criticspick #madeinchinathemusical #aiweiei #puppet #musical #newyorkcity #myfaveplaces #recommendedtheatre #theatre #stage #actors #offbroadway #musical #teatro #ig_nycity #what_i_saw_in_nyc #china @lphagen @minensemblet @AndyManjuck (IG & TW) @stephenjmark @theasy @59E59 Photo credit: @heidibphoto (at 59E59 Theaters)

[berrycampbell]

“Judith Godwin: An Act of Freedom” is open through March 16 at Berry Campbell. We are located at 530 W 24th Street, NYC, Chelsea Arts District, Ground Floor. Artforum’s Critics’ Pick. [Judith Godwin “Blue Figure” 1955 oil on canvas 83 x 47 inches] #judithgodwin #womenshistorymonth #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #oilpainting #chelseagalleries #nycart #vcuarts #virginiaartist #artgalleries #criticspick #artforum #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2bAUSFROL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13vmnj4tpb9o2

[araconnects]

By Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago | 

The art critics of The New York Times tell you what rocked their worlds this year: notable art events, works in museums and galleries, emerging artists and how they found beauty in unexpected places. In highlight:

8. The Chosen People

Two excellent shows timed to the Soviet Union’s centenary have explored the dreams and nightmares of Jewish artists of the left, and what became of their utopianism after 1918. “Comrade. Jew. We Only Wanted Paradise on Earth,” at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, offered a hundred-year survey of the art and literature of Jewish Communists, from Moscow to the gulag and into exile. And “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich,” seen at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and currently at the Jewish Museum in New York (through Jan. 6), vibrantly restages debates about a new Communist art at one revolutionary academy in Vitebsk.

[alyssapallett]

Alyssa Pallett’s The Sweet Ones in NYC, Critic’s Pick 2010

[joseaesquea]

#Repost @kareemmlucas with @instatoolsapp ・・・ Backstage. Two Show Day. We Close TOMORROW NIGHT. Thursday Nov 29th. Catch Us While You Can. #happybirthdaywandajune #kurtvonnegut #catchuswhileyoucan #closingtime @wheelhousetheater @nytimes #criticspick run MUST CLOSE November 29th! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqv12L5A1bz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1slp1eqbqu6ni

[ingridchu]

Secrets, revealed -- Maybe other #writers do this, pocket phrases until they slip out, ready or not... “We all have our little traumas” is one I've saved for awhile and am sharing now, in thinking again about the work of #artist @oscarchanyiklong whose willingness to explore and expose his own I consider in my latest @artforum #CriticsPicks on #HongKong #art #exhibitions (at Gallery EXIT) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTqo26XFnCL/?utm_medium=tumblr

[rpmfm]

s/o to @nowtoronto for choosing #UNCEDED and #OurHomeOnNativeLand Festival as a Must-See Shows of the Week • June 30-July 3 . . . . . . #hottickets #criticspick #tkaronto #festivalseason #indigenousnextwave #indigenousmusic #resistance150

[jhanaekcb]

That's us! Congrats, team! 🙃 #nyt #criticspick