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1 month ago | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Kenny Schachter, Art in the age..., 2025. Photography by Cary Whittier. Image courtesy of the artist and Jupiter. In Kenny Schachter's show at Jupiter gallery on the Lower East Side, I was struck by a sense memory—a visceral jolt of déjà vu. It was the feeling I had in the basement of my first New York apartment over a decade ago, when I looked up and realized all the piping above my head was covered in aging—and in places crumbling—asbestos insulation.
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1 month ago | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Hong Gyu Shin with Vincent Van Gogh’s Head Of A Peasant, 1885, and Marisol’s Portrait Of Willem De Kooning, 1980. All images courtesy of Shin. I thought Hong Gyu Shin was one of the most interesting figures in the New York art scene even before I was sitting at his dining table, looking at his newly acquired Van Gogh. The small canvas, Head of a Peasant, painted in 1885, depicts a woman in profile with her hair gathered up into a dark hat.
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1 month ago | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Palaces of Memory: Critic John Vincler Excavates the Work of Artist Ali Banisadr Ali Banisadr's first museum survey at Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester, New York, reveals the painter's deft transcendence of categorization. Ali Banisadr in the studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
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2 months ago | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
A.I., Income Inequality, and Labor Organizing: Two New Exhibitions Take on the World of Work John Vincler reviews two contemplative New York gallery shows, at Bridget Donahue and Maxwell Graham, on the lives of working people and, maybe, the origins for our current political moment. Kenneth Tam, "The Medallion” (Installation View), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Portrait of Pippa Garner by Hannah Tacher. What can art really do? I find myself asking this again and again as I see show after show. Occasionally—not as often as I would like—art provides an answer at once simple and profound: At its best, it makes us free. Pippa Garner, who died at the age of 82 in Los Angeles late in the evening of December 30, was one of those artists whose work made us free. Or, maybe, I should speak for myself here.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Goofy Gadgets, Poetic Photo Collages, Slurping Sound FX: 3 Must See Gallery Shows to End the Year Our critic finds a sense of play in Pippa Garner’s gender-pilled pranks from the 1980s, Lee Mary Manning’s cinema of still images, and Matthew Barney’s devilish video of Alex Katz. Pippa Garner, Un(tit)led (Blaster Bra), 1982/2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown Galley. Pippa Garner, “Misc.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
The Crowd Goes Wild: Marco Brambilla's Timely Video Confections of Violence and Protest A new installation at Bitforms Gallery weighs the possibilities and pitfalls of A.I. art in a moment of political upheaval, our critic reports. Marco Brambilla, "Limit of Control" (Installation View), 2024. Photography by Han Nguyen. All images courtesy of the artist and Bitforms Gallery.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Wind Turbine at 519 E 11th Street with Con Edison Power Plant, 1976. Image courtesy of The News: New York’s Picture Newspaper. Welcome to Close Looks: a semi-regular column from our critics. This series of long-form reviews dives into buzzy and under-the-radar shows alike, revealing the trends, ideas, and controversies that shape what’s happening—and what’s to come—in the art world.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
"Thomas Schütte" (Installation View), 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Modern Art. Welcome to The Big Picture, where CULTURED’s critics zoom out for a wider view of the art world. While reviews remain the focus of The Critics’ Table, this space is reserved for longer reflections—treatises, prognostications, diaries, and meanderings. Really, anything goes. For this second installment, Co-Chief Art Critic John Vincler sifts through the messes of the current New York scene.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | John Vincler
Brian Oakes, Encryption Device 1, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Blade Study. For our In Brief column, our critics sort through and select from New York's art offerings to present a group of short reviews that share a thread, theme, medium, or neighborhood. In this debut installment, CULTURED Co-Chief Art Critic John Vincler looks to the small galleries clustered around Henry Street, where Chinatown meets the Lower East Side, and finds some of the most adventurous art on view now.
