The Review Panel

February 9th, with Siri Hustvedt, Roberta Smith and Alexi Worth

The Review Panel has a new home: Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Cultural Center at 10 Grand Army Plaza.

As critic and biographer Blake Gopnik has said, “The Review Panel goes at it hammer and tongs.” Three critics join me, David Cohen, founder and moderator of the program, for a live public debate, looking typically at four carefully selected current solo shows of new work by contemporary artists. Audience members, many seeing the shows ahead of the evening, play a lively role in deliberations. As artist and critic Alexi Worth, a guest on our first Brooklyn panel and a longstanding audience member, wrote recently, “As print criticism shrinks, The Review Panel is ever more valuable, as a model, a magnet, and a proof that ‘serious’ can also mean ‘entertaining.’”

Joining Worth February 9 are a stalwart of The Review Panel and a newcomer: respectively, Roberta Smith, co-chief critic of The New York Times, and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of The Blindfold, What I Loved and most recently The Blazing World. In a nice nod to our new hosts, the line-up of speakers and subjects reveals a healthy Brooklyn bias: Hustvedt and Worth, who shows at DC Moore Gallery, live in the Borough, while two of the three venues whose shows are up for discussion are in Red Hook and Bushwick.

Natalie Frank, Rosy Keyser, C. Michael Norton, And Christine Rebel

Triennial ant the New Museum

March 13, with Levi Strauss, Samet, Viveros-Fauné

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLkGolsu5so

The promotional video shows the five exhibitions discussed by The Review Panel, March 13, 2015 at the National Academy Museum.

The next panel takes place April 17 when critics Sharon Butler, Noah Dillon and John Yau join David Cohen to discuss the Triennial at the New Museum and the Invitational at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2015/04/03/the-review-panel-march-2015/

February 2015: Vincent Katz, Martha Schwendener and Christopher Stackhouse

Joining Moderator David Cohen February 13, 2015, at the National Academy Museum, the panelists reviewed exhibitions of Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner, Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Titus Kaphar at Jack Shainman Gallery, and Heidi Howard at Nancy Margolis Gallery.

We regret to inform listeners that due to equipment failure the last segment of the event was not recorded; Heidi Howard’s review ends part way through and the audience response to the second half of the program (Kaphar and Howard) was lost. Special thanks to recording engineer Isaac Derfel for defying the odds and saving the bulk of this month’s recording.

MAMMA ANDERSSON: BEHIND THE CURTAIN

David Zwirner, 519 & 525 West 19th Street

MERLIN JAMES: GENRE PAINTINGS

Sikkema Jenkins & Co, 530 West 22nd Street

HEIDI HOWARD: PORTRAIT & DREAM

Nancy Margolis Gallery, 523 West 25th Street

TITUS KAPHAR: DRAWING THE BLINDS/ASPHALT AND CHALK

Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, 524 West 24th Street

in conjunction with Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project at The Studio Museum in Harlem

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2015/03/13/the-review-panel-february-2015/

The Review Panel, in its last meeting in 2014, took place at the National Academy Museum on November 21. The line up of critics joining moderator David Cohen included veteran Lance Esplund and two newcomers to the program, Sarah Douglas and Edward M. Epstein (in his New York debut; Epstein is a regular of The Review Panel Philadelphia). The exhibitions discussed were “Ragnar Kjartansson and The National: A Lot of Sorrow” at Luhring Augustine Bushwick, “Marina Abramovic: The Generator” at Sean Kelly, “Tommy Hartung: The Bible” at On Stellar Rays, and “Ursula von Rydingsvard: Permeated Shield” at Galerie Lelong. The next panel takes place at the National Academy Friday, February 13, 2015.

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2014/11/21/line-up-for-november-panel-abramovic-kjartansson-hartung-rydingsvard/

October 2014: Ken Johnson, Joan Waltemath and Marjorie Welish joined moderator David Cohen to discuss exhibitions of Jenny Holzer at Cheim & Read, Peter Fend at Essex Street, David Hockney at Pace Gallery and John Walker at Alexandre Gallery. The panel took place at the National Academy Museum. Video by Anna Shukeylo. Recording Engineer: Isaac Derfel.

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2014/10/31/the-review-panel-podcast-of-last-weeks-debate/

September 26, 2014 saw the season premiere of the tenth year of The Review Panel with newcomers Alexander Nagel and Dorothy Spears joining veteran guest Robert Storr with David Cohen moderating as ever. The shows under review were of Allora & Calzadilla at Gladstone Gallery, Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner, Angela Dufresne at Monya Rowe and Justine Kurland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

In discussing Angela Dufresne’s exhibition, Robert Storr introduces the work of Jane Corrigan, showing at Kerry Schuss next door.

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2014/10/17/the-review-panel-september-2014/

The Review Panel: Podcast of the Season Finale in May

May 2 saw the season finale of The Review Panel at the National Academy Museum. Stephanie Buhmann, Mario Naves and newcomer to the series Saul Ostrow joined moderator David Cohen to discuss shows dotted around Manhattan, taking us from the Lower East Side, via Soho and Chelsea to 57th Street. The shows under review: David Maisel: History’s Shadow at Yancey Richardson, John Newman: Fit at Tibor de Nagy, Jackie Saccoccio at Eleven Rivington’s two spaces and Allan Wexler: Breaking Ground at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The panel will be back for its tenth season at the National Academy in September.

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2014/07/17/the-review-panel-may-2014/

April 2014: Colleen Asper, Donald B. Kuspit and Joseph R. Wolin

“2014 Whitney Biennial” was the single focus of The Review Panel on April 4 at the National Academy Museum. Joining moderator David Cohen were his guests Colleen Asper, Donald Kuspit and Joseph Wolin. Wolin, who writes for ArtForum and Time Out New York among other publications, is a new member of the team; Asper and Kuspit are veterans – Kuspit, indeed, appearing earlier this season in the sister series, The Review Panel Philadelphia.

This year the Biennial, unusually, is divvied up, floor by floor, by curator, with three shows within the show organized by Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago).

More at:

http://www.artcritical.com/2014/04/26/april-2014/