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rate_review review schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 23 link 36 artists, 13 galleries

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Cultured magazine's critics roundup highlights several notable New York art exhibitions. Cameron Rowland's "Properties" at Dia Beacon is examined as a landmark Land art installation that uses contractual relations to address racial capitalism, with works available only for rent or loan. Other shows include Feliciano Centurión's "Sol naciente" at Ortuzar, Joshua Caleb Weibley's "Game Transfer Phenomena" at Chart, Ian Miyamura's debut at Bureau, and Laura Owens's new show at Matthew Marks Gallery, each reviewed for their conceptual and aesthetic innovations.

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rate_review review schedule Dec 23, 2025 visibility 27 link 15 artists, 2 galleries

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The article reviews several notable art events and exhibitions from 2025, beginning with Cameron Rowland's controversial work "Replacement" at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where the French flag was replaced with the flag of Martinique, leading to the artwork being deemed potentially illegal. It also covers Johanna Fateman's review of Rowland's "Properties" at Dia Beacon, Ross Simonini's reflection on Joseph Beuys and the Eaton fire in Los Angeles, John Vincler's critiques of Cady Noland at Gagosian and Nicole Eisenman at 52 Walker, and Fateman's year-end roundup including figures like Anne Imhof, Laura Owens, and Jack Whitten.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 25, 2025 visibility 19 link 13 artists, 5 galleries

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Zoë Hopkins reviews Torkwase Dyson's Public Art Fund commission 'Akua' at Brooklyn Bridge Park, a sculptural pavilion that immerses visitors in water sounds and voices of Black writers like Christina Sharpe and Dionne Brand. Paige K. Bradley covers the first-ever solo exhibition of late poet N.H. Pritchard at Peter Freeman, Inc., featuring his concrete visual poems from the Black Arts Movement. Johanna Fateman highlights the work of identical twin artists Jane and Louise Wilson.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 22, 2026 visibility 19 link 8 artists

New biography of Chaïm Soutine pieces together illusive artist's life and works

A new biography of Chaïm Soutine, the early 20th-century painter, has been published. The book, written by Celeste Marcus, attempts to piece together the life of the notoriously private and illusive artist, examining his journey from a Belarusian shtetl to the studios of Montparnasse, his complex relationships, and the myths that have grown around his work and persona.

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rate_review review schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 19 link 9 artists, 3 galleries

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Cultured magazine reviews Cady Noland's 2025 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery's 24th Street location in New York, running through October 18. The show features the artist's signature objects—Budweiser cans, shotgun shells, barricades, and images of Patty Hearst and Lee Harvey Oswald—arranged in a fragmented, almost sale-like display. The review notes the inclusion of Steven Parrino's works alongside Noland's, referencing their collaboration at White Columns in 1988, and highlights new elements like "SALE" signs with manicule illustrations. The critic describes the exhibition as a "fascinating mess" rather than a straightforward success.

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rate_review review schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 13 link 6 artists, 3 galleries

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Art critic David Rimanelli reviews Willem de Kooning's exhibition "Endless Painting" at Gagosian's 555 West 24th Street location, curated by Cecilia Alemani, running through June 24, 2025. The show spans de Kooning's career from 1944 to his final phase, though notably omits his black-and-white oil-and-enamel paintings from the late 1940s. Rimanelli expresses ambivalence, finding the show dreary and pointless despite the high caliber of individual works, and critiques the press release's focus on fragmented body parts. Separately, Johanna Fateman reviews Cosey Fanni Tutti's exhibition at Maxwell Graham, highlighting her controversial 1970s series "Magazine Actions" (1972–80), on view through June 28, 2025.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 19 link 14 artists, 3 galleries

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The article reviews two summer group shows in New York. At 56 Henry, "Small Format Painting," curated by painter Josh Smith and actor/former gallerist Leo Fitzpatrick, features 34 artists working on identical 10x8 inch canvases, including blue-chip names like Nate Lowman and emerging talents. At Matthew Marks Gallery, Julien Nguyen presents a solo show of compact oil-on-copper paintings, inspired by Rembrandt's techniques and featuring his muse Nikos.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 15 link 12 artists, 5 galleries

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Two new art critics join the fold at Cultured, with Johanna Fateman reviewing Sanya Kantarovsky's first New York solo show since 2019, "Scarecrow," at Michael Werner Gallery's two Upper East Side locations. The exhibition features paintings, monotypes, and a glazed stoneware vase centered on Hera, a whippet belonging to artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, alongside works like *Stage (Watteau)* that engage with historical painting. Mary Simpson covers Rosemarie Trockel's acerbic conceptualism, and Jeanette Bisschops reviews a posthumous exhibition of Chloe Dzubilo's intimate and irate drawings, "The Prince George Drawings," at Participant Inc., curated by Alex Fleming and Nia Nottage.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 17 link 2 artists

‘As If’ by Isabel Waidner, Reviewed

Isabel Waidner’s latest novel, 'As If', follows the surreal intersection of two actors, Lewis and Korine, who share an uncanny resemblance and wives with the same name. After meeting in a Central London sublet, the pair decide to swap lives: the younger Korine takes over a high-stakes audition for the grieving Lewis, while Lewis assumes Korine’s domestic and financial burdens. Set against the brutalist backdrop of London’s Barbican and Golden Lane estate, the narrative uses this identity swap to explore the thin line between performance and reality.

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