LUCAS SAMARAS:
Photo-Transformations

By Charles Schultz

JUL-AUG 2018 | ArtSeen

Samaras’s “photo-transformations” are the result of chemical manipulations the artist made to Polaroid images as they were developing.

David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings

By Marcia E. Vetrocq

FEB 2019 | ArtSeen

In the course of fifty years of exhibiting his art, David Rabinowitch has come to be known for his rigorous empiricism, flinty intelligence, and serial investigations into the organizing operations of perception.

Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989

By Lynn Maliszewski

JUNE 2019 | Art Books

These fissures guide our reading of Steidl’s 509-page compilation. Eight essays, written in Czech and in English, outline the entanglement between political compulsions and images published in a nation consistently redefining itself throughout the twentieth century.

John Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction

By Phillip Griffith

NOV 2018 | ArtSeen

After the death of the artist and poet Joe Brainard in 1994, his friend, the poet John Ashbery, recovered an envelope of paper cuttings Brainard had collected for use in collages. The envelope was a posthumous message for Ashbery and reminded him of the collages he had made while spending time with Brainard and the poet James Schuyler in the 1970s. For Ashbery, who died in September 2017, the envelope was a fond reminder of his friend and signaled a return to his work as a collagist.