Sophie Kovel
is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail
John Giorno: Do The Undone
By Sophie KovelOver the past year, Giorno, who passed away suddenly in mid-October, produced a new body of work that affirms the expansiveness of poetry and poetry beyond the page for Do the Undone, his first show at Sperone Westwater.
Corita Kent: Works from the 1960s
By Sophie Kovel“It is a huge danger to pretend awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep on going. I am trying to make hope. And you have to grab it where you can.”
Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
By Sophie KovelThis current exhibition is full of paintings that can be entered, walked around, under. Mack, who staunchly identifies as a painter, has produced an installation for the Brooklyn Museum’s Great Hall that is void of the medium’s historical materials: oils, acrylics, canvas, and supports.
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