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Barry Schwabsky

United States

Editor and Art Critic at The Nation

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky

    How often these days do you come across a more or less orthodox adherent of the Julio González/David Smith/Anthony Caro lineage of welded-metal sculpture? Rarely. And one who is even capable of making that tradition feel fresh and vital? Just about never. So the work of Jilaine Jones comes as a surprise. As we learned from her exhibition here, which featured twenty works created between 2005 and 2024, Jones makes her tradition new by making it old—by treating it as historical and full of memories.

  • 1 month ago | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky

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  • 1 month ago | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky

    Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) might be better known as a writer than as an artist—and, as a writer, he was the kind who excited his peers with ecstasies while somehow never reaching a wider public. W. H.

  • 2 months ago | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky

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