Marie Cosindas
In an understated and symmetrically precise installation of seven photographs at Bel Ami, the work of Marie Cosindas (1923–2017) provided a meditation on photography as a craft of patient attention and...
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The recent paintings of Altoon Sultan, which were on display in her exhibition “New Paintings” at Chris Sharp, defy simple genre categorization. Lacking human figures, these were not portraits; largely...
View ArticleLois Dodd and Ellen Siebers
The two-person exhibition of paintings by Lois Dodd and Ellen Siebers at Parrasch Heijnen made for a surprisingly strange pairing, given the overlap in the artists’ chosen subject matter and format....
View ArticleJames Hayward
In 1959, James Hayward got his ass kicked. As recounted in Indiscretion, a 2010 publication of stories from his life, the beating was administered by “the half a dozen, large, drunken, heartbroken...
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