Agnes and the Spider Woman
Agnes Martin spent much of her life in Taos, New Mexico, an artist colony with a rich connection the the New Mexican landscape. 19th c. weavers of the Navajo tribe, immersed in the same environment, wove blankets of beauty and power. This show at Pace unites these two bodies of work.
Not At Home
Svenja Deininger is skilled in filling her canvases with a variety of textures from leather to woven fabric— but does this pull her work a little too close to the category of furniture? less than half discusses whether or not Deininger has succeeded in making great art.
Not (an art) Fair
For the inaugural Lower East Side art week 23 galleries present the work of female artists, all the while asking us to reassess the venues in which we view art.
In Pen and Paint
Anne Truitt wore many hats: that of artist, that of mother, and that of writer. Read a book review of her diary Daybook.
The Brain is Deeper than the Sea
Charline von Heyl celebrates the endless potential of her canvases in her latest show at Petzel
Laura Owens is not an -ism
Laura Owens Mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art