Christopher Miles

If you know Rachel Whiteread by the work for which she is known — casts in resin, plaster and concrete, using everything from the spaces under chairs or tables, to rooms or even a condemned Victorian house in London or a Vienna Library, as ready-made molds — the pieces presently......

All art is born of some need to express something, but art of the ilk inhabited by Louise Bourgeois (and some of the great Expressionists and Surrealists with whom she studied and rubbed elbows in her early years) often runs into trouble. With its combination of psyche-sifting introspection and projectile-purging......

“Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s” at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts The centerpiece of this show focusing on one decade in the long career of Hans Burkhardt — the Basel-born expressionist who began his career in New York among friends like Arshile Gorky and Willem deKooning, moved to Los Angeles......

David Korty at Michael Kohn Gallery David Korty’s larger project as an artist, as evidenced at his first solo show at Michael Kohn and previous exhibitions at other venues, seems distinctly, unabashedly and optimistically modernist. Korty, who for a few years drifted between experiments in revisiting approaches of Impressionist and......

Aptly titled “PORTRAITS, PIN-UPS and Wistful Romantic Idylls,” the latest exhibition from the Birmingham-born, L.A.-raised, Chicago-based Marshall furthers his goals of “representing aspects of Black Culture rarely made visible in contemporary picture making” and “foregrounding the black figure in popular genres of painting not usually associated with the sociopolitical frame......

The Anima Dannata, or Damned Soul, is not Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s most ambitious work, but the carved marble, produced in 1619 when Bernini was just 22, is a defining work of his long career. A broad-browed, boldly featured man appears frozen in an instant of simultaneous ecstasy and horror —......

In 2007, the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht produced a series of Blow Up photos by freezing flower arrangements in liquid nitrogen and then exploding them, capturing the split second they were morphing into space junk. What exactly does that series have to do with ikebana? (That is, the 600-year-old......

Marlene Dumas is as much a stirrer of primordial soup and human emotions as she is a painter, and one of the ways the South African–born, Amsterdam-based artist gets down into the mess of all that soup is via the act of painting itself. As is evident in her work......