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David Jager

arts & culture writer based in New York and Canada

Susan Kim Alverez: Squonk, Squonky, Squonkalicious at Storage

Richard Tuttle, Celebrated for His Achingly Spare Compositions, Offers Bolder Investigations in His ‘Prong’ Series

A Sprawling, Brain-Melting Smorgasbord, New York’s Armory Show Returns for Its 30th Anniversary

The Hybrid American Future That Wasn’t

Art Dealer Michael Findlay’s Rollicking Journey Through the 1960s New York Art Scene

Martin Mull, Painter

The Jews of Venice

Fifteen Minutes of Flame

A Handsome De Kooning Retrospective at Venice Proposes that Italy was Central to his Later Art

Pleasing and Productive Contrasts Emerge as Contemporary Art is Juxtaposed with Historic Architecture at Venice

Painter Elizabeth Floods Plein Air Landscapes Revel in the Immediacy of Perception

Mary Cassatt-Once Seen As Peripheral- Looks Increasingly Like a Central Figure in the Impressionist Movement

Marlborough Gallery Sets Up a Conversation Between Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon-Two Masters of the Artistic Persona

John Cheever’s Enigmatic Swimmer Inspires a Cool New Summer Exhibit at Flag Art Foundation

Vik Muniz Recreates American Icons With Shredded Fiat Currency- Questioning What Our Collective History is Made Of

Cy Twombly’s Son Alessandro Carries on in his Father’s Tradition with Bright Blooming Abstractions

The Savagery of Time Gets Its Due in David Hares Surrealist Take on the Mythological Cronus

Pop Art Pioneer Jim Dine’s New Show Hearkens Back to His Origins as an Innovator

Sherron Francis at Lincoln Glenn

A Conversation between David Hiroshi Jager and Francois Xavier Saint Pierre

Nitouche Anthoussi: Species of Heterotopia at The Opening Gallery

Book Review: David Levinthal's Vietnam

Joel Mesler wants you to watch out for the Coke birds

A Visit with Jason McLean at Van Der Plas Gallery in New York

Frank Stella's Massive New Pieces Nearly Devour the Space at Jeffrey Dietch

A Tale of Two Cities Gives Paris Its Due in the History of Postwar Painting

Elisabetta Benassi at Peter Freeman

Peter Nadin, "The Invisible World" at Half Gallery

Giants at the Br ooklyn Musuem Samples Decades of Black Art Collected by Alicia Keyes and Swizz Beats

James Seward, a Promising Young Painter, Reconstructs with Eerie Hyperreality Iconic Cinematic Embraces

Theaster Gates, Using the Brute Vocabulary of Things, Confronts Viewers at White Cube

Carollee Schneeman "Of Course you Don't, Don't you Dare at PPOW"

Kyle Staver, Truth Be Told at Half Gallery

The International Center of Photography Shows Off It's Archives Depth As It Celebrates a Half Century

Excavated Selves: Becoming Magic Bodies at Alchemy Gallery

Cindy Sherman, Who Built a Career Out of Being Someone Else, Deploys AI to Go Beyond Self Portraiture

A Closer Look at James Welling and John Wesley, Two Artists Who Defy Classification

Canada Gallery Showcases Joan Snyders Vibrant, If Not Eye Searing Maximalism

Not That Way: Group Show at Bullet Space

Photographer Daniel Arnold's Lightning Quick Sensibility Yields Moments of Humanity and High Weirdness

Lines Between Decorative and Fine Art Increasingly Blurred, as Examples Abound at Context Art Miami

A Conversation with Onyedika Chuke, Artist and Curator of Storage

Robert Storr, The Bad Boy of Curating, is back, WIth a Large Group of Misfits, to Induce 'Retinal Hysteria'

Georg Baselitz, whose Stock in Trade is Raw Energy and Subversion, has Mortality on his Mind

Pippilotti Rist: Prickling Goosebumps and a Humming Horizon

Michiko Itatani’s Celestial Interiors, Replete With Earthly and Otherworldly Wonder

Painter Tracey Emin, Who Survived a Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Excavates the Intertwining of Love and Death in ‘Lover’s Grave’

For Those Too Bleary-Eyed To Notice, a Loving Tribute to Lower Manhattan’s Watering Holes at Dawn

A Long-Overdue Survey of the Work of the Notoriously Restless Sculptor, Not Vital, Parses a Body of Work That Resists Easy Classification

How the Fab Four Rocked the Fashion World

Peter Hujar at 125 Newbury

Hillary Harkness, Reimagining Civil War Paintings, Revels in Uncomfortable Contradictions

Jean Katambayi Mukendi at RAMIKEN

Helen Mirra Coolly and Keenly Contemplates Ecological Disaster, and Other Shows Capturing the Art World’s Attention

Julian Schnabel, Channeling Dante, Ventures Into the ‘Illimitable’ in a ‘Bouquet of Mistakes’ at Pace

Painter Brandi Twilley, a Kind of Midwestern Dickens, Depicts the Workaday Lives of Blue-Collar Americans With Searing Vividness

New York Love Affair: Timothy Goodman at Richard Taittinger

At 89, Jay Milder, an Heir of Abstract Expressionism Who Forged His Own Iconoclastic Path, Shows No Sign of Stopping

“The Moon and I” at Grimm Gallery

Nigerian Artist Victor Ekpuk Talks to David Jager About the Curious Intersection of Writing, Art, Representation, and Culture

For London Visitors Looking for Art Beyond the Summer Blockbusters, New York’s ‘Sister Galleries’ Beckon

Too Real, Yet Too Wild To Be Believed: the Fantasy Landscapes of Wu Chi-Tsung at the Katonah Museum of Art

Permutations: Paintings by Rifka Milder at The Yard

Hold That Tile: The Art, Life, and Loves of Carol Janeway Are Finally Reprised in a Biography and Catalog Like Few Others

Gilbert and George’s Cheeky ‘Corpsing Pictures’ Arrive at New York as the Duo, Once Outsiders, Have Become Nearly Entombed in Glory

Jim Dine: Three Ships: Painting and Sculpture at Templon

Allegorical and Monumental, Mark Bradford’s Canvases Confront Viewers With Feral Energy

At the Frick, an Exploration of Rococo Sumptuousness, Etched in Pastel

The Enduring Power of a Master of Refined Understatement, Isamu Noguchi

Yayoi Kusama on a More Intimate Scale — and at Her Most Whimsically Grand

Sotheby's Insight

A Walk in the Clouds

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