Jennifer Krasinski

New York

Writer, Critic and Contributing Editor at Artforum

writer | critic | contributor @4columns @Artforum @Bookforum @thenovembermag and others | erstwhile @villagevoice

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Articles

Thaddeus Mosley

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Thaddeus Mosley Jennifer Krasinski Twelve sculptures by the artist present a spirited balance between weight and levity. Thaddeus Mosley: Proximity, installation view. Courtesy Karma. Thaddeus Mosley: Proximity, Karma, 549 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York City, through May 23, 2025• • •Love isn’t a tenable critical position, and, most of the time, I think that’s exactly as it should be. Love makes us corny, blurs our edges, and (the worst fate for a writer) induces hyperbole.
John Zorn

2 months ago | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

John Zorn Jennifer Krasinski A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over fifty years of genre-defying works. John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography, installation view. Courtesy the Drawing Center. Photo: Daniel Terna.
Charles Atlas

Jan 17, 2025 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Charles Atlas Jennifer Krasinski A kaleidoscope of media-dances and moving-image installations capture over fifty years of radiant, immersive, and collaborative works. Charles Atlas: About Time, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine. Photo: Mel Taing. Pictured: The Years, 2018.
Anything but Simple

Nov 7, 2024 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Anything but Simple Jennifer Krasinski Visited by heavenly visions, Shaker women made “gift” drawings that functioned as instruments of spiritual inspiration. Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic, installation view. Courtesy American Folk Art Museum.
Arlene Shechet

Sep 12, 2024 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Arlene Shechet Jennifer Krasinski The artist’s “Girl Group” of sculptures at Storm King burst forth with color, mischief, and intelligence. Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery. Photo: David Schulze. Pictured: Midnight, 2024. Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, cocurated by Nora Lawrence and Eric Booker with Adela Goldsmith, Storm King Art Center, 20 Old Pleasant Hill Road, New Windsor, New York, through November 10, 2024• • •Harmonies. Hairdos.
Taking the Performance Apart | Jennifer Krasinski

Jun 29, 2024 | nybooks.com | Jennifer Krasinski

In the late 1960s, at the outset of her career, Joan Jonas would visit a gallery or loft and stare into it “until my vision blurred.” Then, she wrote in 2014, “an idea for a piece would come.” As she understood it, an artist’s job was to fill space, whether that of a room, canvas, screen, or piece of paper. The pressing question was: with what?
Toshiko Takaezu

May 30, 2024 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Toshiko Takaezu Jennifer Krasinski A stunning retrospective of over two hundred ceramics works, paintings, and textiles by the virtuoso artist. Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, installation view. Courtesy the Noguchi Museum. Photo: Nicholas Knight.
The Freaks Came Out to Write

Feb 22, 2024 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

The Freaks Came Out to Write Jennifer Krasinski Seven decades of rabble-rousing voices from the Village Voice, chronicled in a new book by Tricia Romano.
Anne Carson’s unruly art of renewal

Feb 6, 2024 | bookforum.com | Jennifer Krasinski

IT IS A FITTING IRONY that when trying to describe Anne Carson’s sensibility, one quickly hits the limits of language. To measure the breadth of her brain across her twenty or so books, one might acquiesce to hyphen-chic—as in, she is a poet-translator-scholar-of-ancient-Greek-essayist-visual-artist-playwright-maker-of-performances-and-dances—but such frantic stitching would fail to impart how seamlessly entwined her practices are.
Helen Marten

Oct 12, 2023 | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Helen Marten Jennifer Krasinski The Fast Seduction: an exhibition by the Turner Prize–winning artist is poison eye candy for the people. Helen Marten: Evidence of Theatre, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Photo: Eva Herzog. Pictured, center, back right wall: The dawn reflection, 2023.