July 25, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

David Wojnarowicz retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, painful, important, a must-see

Andrea Kirsh visits the moving retrospective of multi-disciplinary artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, one of three exhibits on the artist currently on view in New York. Kirsh also takes a look at the catalog for this timely exhibition, which does important research that should open the door for more. The show runs through September 30th at the Whitney Museum.

July 18, 2018 by Michael Lieberman

Something for everyone in Woodmere Art Museum’s large, excellent 77th Annual

Michael is bowled over by the depth and range of works in the juried Annual show. He finds beautiful pieces, pieces with emotional uplift and works that reverberate with our current social climate of alienation, distrust and violence.

June 10, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

Books on Powerful Art by African American Women, part 1

The bibliography of politically-committed art by African American women has gotten considerably richer with the publication of several exhibition catalogs, all of which are essential resources on their subjects. Here, in part 1 of a two-part series, Andrea Kirsh reviews the catalogs for “Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and “Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths” at Grounds for Sculpture.

May 7, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

“Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Andrea Kirsh visits the PMA’s new exhibition, “Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950,” which celebrates art from our museum’s own early 20th century American collection, independent of its European counterparts. As the museum prepares for the 2020 unveiling of its renovated and expanded exhibition spaces, this show whets our appetite for what’s to come.

March 18, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

Stories of Almost Everyone at UCLA Hammer Museum, big group show pleases and frustrates

February 13, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

National Gallery’s Outliers and American Vanguard Art, blockbuster show with many gems but too much work

Sometimes a show can be too big. Andrea talks about the new, 277+-work exhibition combining outsider and mainstream art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and says it includes many gems that are wonderful to see, but that the show breaks no new ground and winds up overwhelming even the hard-bitten art lover. She provides a few tips on what’s not to be missed.

December 6, 2017 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for the Holidays 2017 Part 1

Andrea reports on four books you might consider getting for the bibliophile/art-loving person in your life. Two of the books, one on painter Alice Neel, and one on photographer Richard Avedon, are well-designed and richly illustrated exhibition catalogs of recent exhibitions; one, also a show catalog, well-organized and attractive, with a Barkley Hendricks image on the cover, aggregates scholarship and imagery of art made by African Americans in the Black Power era (1960s-70s); and one is an extremely alluring and seductive design anthology of African design — interior, architecture, household furnishings, fashion — that will have you running to the Internet to make immediate purchases! Read on.

September 24, 2017 by Andrea Kirsh

Music to See at LAAC, Dunkerque

Andrea shepherds us to the French coastal town Dunkerque to review the exhibition at Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine (LAAC) organized by composer and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur. She writes, “While tracing familiar territory, it offered a broad view of the subject and a number of surprises with artists, both earlier and contemporary, who were new to me….This exhibition succeeded with a challenge that faces many museums today: how to present work and ideas that stimulate a knowledgeable audience while offering something for a more general public which may not be familiar with contemporary art.”