A Labor of Love in Dublin

Shana Beth Mason - 22.10.201522.10.2015

Telling someone you love them is hard enough. So how can it be defined in concrete form? Can art tell someone else, can art tell you that you are loved?...

opinion

Between Frieze NY and Art Basel

Shana Beth Mason - 29.05.201530.05.2015

Shana Beth Mason recommends five exhibitions to see in New York between Frieze NY and Art Basel.

mening

Four Filmmakers to Watch in 2015

Shana Beth Mason - 08.05.201510.05.2015

Non-commercial film is an essential, powerful presence on the institutional and commercial contemporary art circuit. With each biennial, festival, art...

review

The New Museum Triennial: Surround Audience

Shana Beth Mason - 10.03.201510.03.2015

The New Museum Triennial is bursting with color, noise, movement, dynamic, treble, bass (and some added bass) across all four of its floors. It is lively...

opinion

Four artists to watch in 2015

Shana Beth Mason - 11.12.201410.12.2014

“Youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?” Rarely are the truisms of Confucius...

review

Enter the “Hood”

Shana Beth Mason - 01.09.201404.09.2014

This is not food. This is unusable. This is absurd.

essay

Hippie with experience

Shana Beth Mason - 13.06.2014

Ahead of Art Basel 2014, Shana Beth Mason presents a considered look at the work of Betty Tompkins. Tompkins will show at Art Basel with Galerie Rodolphe...

review

A journey through modes of existence

Shana Beth Mason - 23.05.201423.05.2014

Fawad Khan explores familial and historic visual traditions in Empire of Personal Myths at Lu Magnus in New York.

review

Hidden energy

Shana Beth Mason - 13.03.201418.03.2014

If artists are lauded for seeing the beauty in the world that goes amiss for the rest of us, then Esko Männikkö is the one-eyed man in the house of the...

Days at the fairs

Shana Beth Mason - 20.12.201317.01.2014

Miami-based art critic Shana Beth Mason gives an update on this year´s Art Basel Miami Beach and some of the satelite fairs.

Commendable choices at ARTISSIMA

Shana Beth Mason - 22.11.201303.12.2013

All swords were drawn at what is easily one of the most challenging, competitive art fairs in Europe at the 2013 edition of ARTISSIMA. Directed by Sarah...

GATTACA: Michael Jon Gallery, Miami

Shana Beth Mason - 10.09.201310.09.2013

From July 27th to August 31st, the Michael Jon Gallery presented GATTACA, a group exhibition in its Downtown Miami space just blocks away from the Pérez...