Mary Ann Caws

May 29, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Mary Ann Caws

ArtSeen New York City David Nolan GalleryEnrico Baj: Alter Ego and Other Hypotheses Celebrating the Artist’s Centennial April 18 – May 31, 2024 First of all, I loved the very idea of this central figure in the Italian neo-avant-garde indulging in his “passion for the eccentric” right here in our New York City, where we have, I daresay most of us, been known to have both a few passions and quite a few eccentrics.

May 29, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Mary Ann Caws

ArtSeen On View Kasmin GalleryApril 4–May 9, 2024New York Ah, yes, and I met Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne years ago, in Paris, and actually purchased way back then a small Lalanne rhinoceros to put by the fireplace of my oldest friend from Wilmington, NC, as a Christmas present.

Feb 29, 2024 | burlington.org.uk | Mary Ann Caws

Edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang, with essays by Simonetta Fraquelli, Cindy Kang, Jelena Kristic, Christine Poggi, Rachel Silveri and contributions by Corrinne Chong and Oriane Poret. 208 pp. incl. 112 col. + 64 b. & w. ills. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 2023), £40. ISBN 978–0–30027–363–2. Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), a model free spirit, danced among the sexually fluid circles of 1920s Paris.

Dec 12, 2023 | brooklynrail.org | Mary Ann Caws

ArtSeen On Picasso On View GagosianA Foreigner Called PicassoNovember 10, 2023–February 10, 2024New York So much is here, and not really too much, for seeing these all together makes a difference worth making. Right away, and then on … Picasso l’l'étranger indeed, having been denied citizenship in 1940, with Maurice Barrès declaring, “the foreigner who, like a parasite, is poisoning us,” in the terrible times of the Nazi occupation of Paris.

Mar 29, 2023 | brooklynrail.org | Mary Ann Caws

Art Books These essays draw from such different realms as philosophy, architecture, photography and film, translation, narrative, painting, and performance. Brian DillonAffinities: On Art and Fascination(New York Review of Books, 2023) Brian Dillon’s involvement with the word and meaning of “affinities” is in itself worth any time spent perusing these pages.