Category Archives: Reviews

Arts and culture reviews published in news media.

Portraits of Time and Place- Lisette Model Photographs

Posted on October 19, 2011 by melissa

Oct 12, 2011 • Lisette Model showing in Chelsea There are few galleries in New York City that approach their mission as thoughtfully as Bruce Silverstein Gallery. Silverstein’s exhibitions are curated with consistent care and intellectual rigor. The current show, … Continue reading →

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A Tree Grows in Manhattan

Posted on September 19, 2011 by melissa

 September 13, 2011 · Landscape architecture brings majesty, rebirth to 9/11 memorial site “We’re sometimes dismissed as the guys who put the trees in,” says David Walker about his firm’s seminal role in the design of the 9/11 memorial site. … Continue reading →

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Chris Marker- Passeges at Peter Blum Gallery

Posted on July 16, 2011 by melissa

Originally posted on May 17, 2011 in CityArts While viewing the gigantic exhibition of photographs by Chris Marker at the Peter Blum Gallery, I was struck by one question: How much of a role should context play in understanding and … Continue reading →

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Wecloming The Coney Island Spectacularium

Posted on May 9, 2011 by melissa

orig. published May 2, 2011 The New York Press by Melissa Stern At the end of the 19th Century, Coney Island was the center of a particularly American world of entertainment. Everything from freak shows to amusement-park rides to scientific … Continue reading →

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Frederick Sommer: Choice and chance structure art and nature

Posted on May 9, 2011 by melissa

orig. published March 8, 2011 CityArts By Melissa Stern “Where a thing is, is more important than what it is.” This undated quote by the artist Frederick Sommer sums up neatly his lifelong aesthetic. A man of restless artistic energies … Continue reading →

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OILER- John Clement in Brooklyn

Posted on March 9, 2011 by melissa

February 8, 2011 · View Comments By Melissa Stern Bigger really is better. This was my thought as I left the Causey Contemporary Gallery after watching John Clement and crew erect an 18-foot-tall welded steel sculpture titled Oiler. Clement, already … Continue reading →

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More Than One Africa

Posted on December 21, 2010 by melissa

An exhibit attempts to encapsulate the many pluralities of wnat Africa means in physical objects orig. published December 21 2010 by CityArts It’s difficult to know what to make of the sprawling new exhibit at the Museum of Arts and … Continue reading →

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New York Be Nice

Posted on December 15, 2010 by melissa

orig. published December 15, 2010 by CityArts I can only assume that the title of Kristen Morgin’s New York debut exhibition, New York Be Nice, is a plea for a kind review, because it bears no relation to the work … Continue reading →

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Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu

Posted on November 10, 2010 by melissa

Originally published November 10, 2010 by CityArts Wangechi Mutu makes some of the most unsettling and potent drawings in recent memory. Her debut New York show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery is both haunting and disturbing—and I mean that as a … Continue reading →

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C.K. Wilde: Tender

Posted on October 28, 2010 by melissa

Originally published October 28, 2010 by CityArts Money, money everywhere, but not a buck to spend. That was one of the thoughts running through my mind as I viewed Tender by C.K. Wilde at Pavel Zoubeck Gallery. The exhibition is … Continue reading →

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