Francesca Woodman’s The Artist’s Books

By Karen Chernick

SEPT 2023 | Art Books

Now, with the release of Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books, even the most informed Woodman fans are discovering that there’s still more they didn’t know about her. Of the eight artist’s books gathered in this volume, only one has ever been previously published and two were rediscovered recently (in the archives of The Woodman Family Foundation, which also include the many notebooks Woodman kept for to-do lists, ideas, and sketches).

John Tursi: New Works

By Andrew Paul Woolbright

APRIL 2023 | ArtSeen

In John Tursi's New Works at Ricco/Maresca, the artist cultivates a sense of movement and psychedelic animation through dense repetition. Simple shapes are plaited into larger patterns that Tursi combines into machinic bodies. Each figure evokes pulsating Broadyway Boogie-Woogies of movement, that systematize the body into reeling conveyor belts of synapse.

Works on Paper: 100 Years

By Alfred Mac Adam

JULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen

My friends, come one, come all! The Amanita Gallery has brought the greatest show on earth to the Lower East Side! Fifty-nine works on paper by fifty-four artists: a glorious, international century. Whatever your favorite style may be, you’ll find it here in a dazzling panoply.

The Ten Best Art Books of 2022

DEC 22–JAN 23 | Art Books

This month, our editors and writers have reflected on their favorite art books of 2022: artist's writings, photobooks, monographs, and exhibition catalogues featuring work by Alison Knowles, Shala Miller, Robert Motherwell, and others.