Carol Armstrong

Mar 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler |Carol Armstrong |Molly Warnock |Michelle Grabner

Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It – till you Fake It., 2023 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN’S Fake it, Fake it – till you Fake it., 2023, opens with a subtle intervention—perhaps the only subtle part of this characteristically chaotic display (the artist abhors the term installation): a length of cardboard partly blocking the threshold between the vestibule of Gladstone Gallery’s Twenty-First Street location in New York and the cavernous main exhibition space, narrowing the entryway and, in turn,...

Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Carol Armstrong |Jeff Gibson |Thierry de Duve |Barry Schwabsky

The art of Ellen GallagherONCE UPON A TIME, you entered Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum to visit its world-class collection of early-twentieth-century abstract art, and then climbed a grand staircase to arrive at its Hall of Honor on the first floor. And once upon a time, that first-floor space held the work of the Big Boys of the New York School, thereby functioning as a triumphant climax to the museum’s telos of abstraction. But that was when the museum consisted only of its original 1895 building.