Wrong Life Review

Celebrity Art

In the limited, consistent vocabulary of celebrity art AbEx, Pollock, Warhol and Basquiat really were the end of the road and all the rest is academic…

Jul 25 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

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February 2023

Post-Conceptualism to Neo-Surrealism, Postscript

Art is a hot mess: history, crisis, denial and lessons from recent public art stumbles

Feb 2, 2023 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

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September 2022

Setting-Up the Set-Up: Nyeema Morgan at PATRON Gallery

Barbarita Polster asks: If irony traditionally requires expressing one thing to mean its opposite, what happens when opposites become oppositional no…

Sep 16, 2022 • 

Barbarita Polster

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August 2022

Good and Bad #6: The Mezzanine, The Novelist

Adam Rothbarth asks: Is The Novelist a beautiful example of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, or is it a mournful reflection on an increasingly despairing…

Aug 26, 2022 • 

Adam Rothbarth

5

Reality al dente: Authenticity and The Bear

Since when has the goal of art been to recreate reality? Is reality so good that all artistic endeavors should seek to reproduce it?

Aug 16, 2022 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

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Adam Rothbarth

7

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Spencer Lewis at Harper's

What a great thing it is to be, just a painting: free, true and unencumbered, serving no aim but its own.

Aug 9, 2022 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

4

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July 2022

Good and Bad #5: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis

Adam Rothbarth asks: Whose story are music biopics really trying to tell?

Jul 22, 2022 • 

Adam Rothbarth

4

June 2022

The Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

For Juneteenth, a little-known engraving of a world historical moment

Jun 20, 2022 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

2

Richard Serra at David Zwirner

In the dumbest century, Serra continues to do the most ridiculous thing: he makes quality works of art

Jun 8, 2022 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

4

May 2022

Good and Bad #4: WeCrashed, Super Pumped, The Dropout

Adam Rothbarth asks: There’s been a rash of great tech shows recently. But who are they really about?

May 26, 2022 • 

Adam Rothbarth

3

Jinn Bronwen Lee at Regards

A painting show in Chicago plays with the gallery space and shows that painting still has a few tricks left to wield

May 18, 2022 • 

Barbarita Polster

1

The Whitney Biennial is Not Good

"Quiet as It's Kept" is the pungently curated 80th edition of a show that ostensibly marks the moment in art.

May 13, 2022 • 

Allison Hewitt Ward

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