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June 20, 2005
"All the Mighty World: the Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860"

It’s a potent reminder that the landscape of war is half-created and half-perceived.

June 20, 2005
Surrealism U.S.A.

The enormous Lee Friedlander retrospective shows us America in all its garish glee.

June 6, 2005
Bad Impression

A critic confesses: I hate Monet.

May 23, 2005
Neo Rauch: Renegaten

Neo Rauch has made old-school Socialist Realism accessible, and even palatable, to Western curators and collectors.

May 23, 2005
Jaded Beauty

Jack Goldstein and Gregory Crewdson continue dancing on the line between earnest and distanced.

May 2, 2005
The Interpretation of Dreams

Gritty and grounded, Max Ernst managed to dig out the more substantive side of Surrealism.

April 18, 2005
Toxic Cuteness

At the Japan Society’s �Little Boy,� Hiroshima leads directly to Hello Kitty.

April 4, 2005
Robert Gober

Robert Gober's first New York gallery show in eleven years is a heavily mannered, personal, and at times puzzling attempt to process a global event.

April 4, 2005
Has Damien Hirst Jumped the Shark?

The provocateur’s new paintings still can’t get much beyond his need to shock.

March 28, 2005
American Graffiti

�Basquiat� is a bit too reverent, but it catches the messy energy of the artist in his moment.