Like we said in Part II of our Annual Recap, what stayed with us most from 2013 was mostly small and mostly quiet, meditative works that brought us back to the pleasures of long looking. Here’s a shortlist of the galleries and museums we felt did right by riding the counter-current, giving us intimately scaled […]

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Def Louise Nevelson ‘Untitled.’ 1981. © Louise Nevelson Foundation, courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. Remnants: Louise Nevelson & Aaron Siskind 19 September – 2 November ’13 Bruce Silverstein 535 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 212.627.3930 Thirty-two works by Nevelson and Siskind, most of them from early in the artists’ careers, are now […]

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© Aaron Siskind Foundation

Aaron Siskind’s photographs from the post-Photo League years feel at first crowded with big, familiar names: Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman. But Siskind, who understood that paint is paint and the camera is different, made pictures that remain wholly his own. Never mind the pervasive sense of Abstract Expressionist gesture in […]

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