Barry Schwabsky is an art critic, art historian, and poet based in New York City.
Amid the bare studs of a vacant FiDi highrise, a self-organized exhibition reanimates memories of New York’s abandonment and once-settled feuds over the myths of abstract art.
Premised on the closeness of their Île-de-France homes, a juxtaposition in Paris of Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell incidentally reveals the contrasts in their responses to landscape.
Getting his due in Germany at long last, painter Frank Bowling was recently awarded the 2022 Wolfgang Hahn Prize – an award for established contemporary artists whose oeuvres are not as well-known in ...