Review Roundup

"Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered " at The Jewish Museum

"What is remarkable about the paintings now, however, is how uninteresting they are. What once made them controversial — the hint of a jokey, unconscious anti-Semitism — has evaporated, leaving little more than bland, posterlike representations." - Ken Johnson/NYTimes

"These colorful, kitschy silk-screens of (some of them) serious intellectual and political figures come across as overtly tongue-and-cheek—especially when thought of in the context of the artist’s iconic Marilyns." - Karen Bookatz/Heeb Magazine

"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at P.S. 1

"...the best way to look at the show is as a walk-in catalogue, a consciousness- raising session, and a class reunion. This P.S. 1 show is loaded with DIY ingenuity, passion, and literal blood and guts." - Jerry Saltz/NYMag

"Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art and Community" at the Bronx Museum

"The show is much smaller than 'WACK!' but includes a wealth of historical material, much of which would be better served by a book or documentary film." - Karen Rosenberg/NYTimes

"Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster" at the Whitney

"...a small, pure, gladdening exhibition of major work by the rhapsodic and droll American modernist..." - Peter Schjeldahl/New Yorker

"Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the 18th and 19th Centuries" at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College

"...a superb small scholarly show, one as revealing of the past as it is germane to the present... every object in the show seems to tick with a volatile history." - Holland Cotter/NYTimes

Whitney Biennial

"Disappointment lies at the heart of every Whitney Biennial. What we do not expect, however, is for the Biennial to be dull, uninspired, flat, tepid. Such is the case this year." - Edward Sozanski/Philadelphia Inquirer

"In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers From Corot to Monet" at the National Gallery (Washington, D.C.)

"... completely spellbinding ... it tells a complicated and fascinating story about the role of nature in general and of Fontainebleau in particular in art, work, leisure and progress." - Roberta Smith/NYTimes

"Fluids" by Allan Kaprow at the Tate Modern (London)

"More than 20 art students will erect the Tate Modern piece over half a day. It will consist of 7.3 tonnes of ice and be left to melt over a period of five days." - Arifa Akbar/Independent