Rachel Wetzler

New York

Art Critic at Freelance

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Anne Imhof

2 weeks ago | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler

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“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930”

Feb 1, 2025 | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler

Curated by Tracey Bashkoff and Vivien Greene“THE REIGN OF ORPHEUS IS BEGINNING,” declared the poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire in his review of the 1913 Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
Jeff Gibson shares his favorite things of 2024

Dec 11, 2024 | artforum.com | Jeff Gibson |Ellen Tani |Rachel Wetzler |Dan Nadel

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Julia Ribeiro shares her favorite things of 2024

Dec 5, 2024 | artforum.com | Júlia Ribeiro |Ellen Tani |Rachel Wetzler |Dan Nadel

Julia Ribeiro is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is an Associate Editor at Artforum. “Just on the Other Side,” Taj Poscé’s New York solo debut, was the last exhibition I saw before this year’s presidential election. The artist’s process-based practice utilizes nontraditional materials (industrial plastic sheeting, tar paper, diamond dust, flames, etc.) inspired by his family’s history working in construction.
Julia Ribeiro shares her favorite things of 2024

Dec 5, 2024 | artforum.com | Júlia Ribeiro |Ellen Tani |Rachel Wetzler |Dan Nadel

Julia Ribeiro is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is an Associate Editor at Artforum. “Just on the Other Side,” Taj Poscé’s New York solo debut, was the last exhibition I saw before this year’s presidential election. The artist’s process-based practice utilizes nontraditional materials (industrial plastic sheeting, tar paper, diamond dust, flames, etc.) inspired by his family’s history working in construction.
Barry Schwabsky shares his favorite things of 2024

Dec 4, 2024 | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky |Ellen Tani |Rachel Wetzler |Dan Nadel

Barry Schwabsky is coeditor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books of poetry are Feelings of And (2022) and Water from Another Source (2023). Would you believe one of the best things that happened to me this year was my flight from Milwaukee back to New York being canceled? That’s because, when I was standing in line to rebook, the back of the head in front seemed familiar: And yes, it really was one of the greatest living American poets, Milwaukee’s own John Koethe.
Franklin Sirmans’s Top Ten

Dec 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Franklin Sirmans |Ellen Tani |Rachel Wetzler |Dan Nadel

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The Rebirth of the Music Rag

Jun 3, 2024 | oakiedog.substack.com | Rachel Wetzler |Allen Ginsberg |David Katznelson

“The frustrating, rough, rainy world outside of our screens it the place where our bodies and minds are at their best, the place where they are built, and grow and change.”-David SaxIt was announced last week that Spin Magazine will be coming out with a print edition for the first time since 2012.
Charlotte Kent on museums and protest

Jun 1, 2024 | artforum.com | protestBy Charlotte Kent |Charlotte Kent |Kito Nedo |Rachel Wetzler

IN OCTOBER 2023—that is to say, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s violent response—the Frick Pittsburgh postponed the opening of “Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art” (now scheduled for August 10, 2024) to avoid putting staff in “the impossible position of discussing the war” with the diverse publics who would come through its doors.
Andrew V. Uroskie on the Whitney Biennial 2024

Jun 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Andrew Uroskie |Charlotte Kent |Kito Nedo |Rachel Wetzler

FOR A BIENNIAL OFTEN VIEWED as taking the pulse of the contemporary moment, the event this year features moving-image works that mostly reckoned with history: its stories, its subjects, and its narrators. But history itself has become a vital subject of contemporary debates, here in America as elsewhere. Who would have thought that we would be deliberating whether chattel slavery benefited the enslaved, as Florida is now teaching?