Ben Lima

"Francisco Moreno: Historia Sintética" at Dallas Contemporary curated by Thomas Feulmer [2 of 2] 👑👑👑

"Francisco Moreno: Historia Sintética" at Dallas Contemporary curated by Thomas Feulmer 🔥🔥🔥 [1 of 2]

Art criticism, wrapped! In 2025 I wrote about “A Room Hung with Thoughts: British Painting Now”; Alex Da Corte; “American Modernism from the Charles E. Butt Collection”; Antony Gormley; “Cabinet Pictures”; Carlos Basualdo; Carolyn Brown; Charles Dee Mitchell; “Creatures and Captives: Painted Textiles of the Ancient Andes”; David Canright; “Double Vision” and Francesca Mollett; “East of the Pacific”; Erika Huddleston; “Esvin Alarcón Lam, Antonio Pichillá and Simón Vega: Nuestro lugar en estos mundos/Our Place in These Worlds”; Eva Lundsager; Francisco Moreno; George W. Bush; Haegue Yang; “International Surrealism”; Jenny Saville; Jóhann Eyfells; Kelly Tapia-Chuning: Selected Works; Laura Wilson and Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Ludwig Schwarz; Marisol; Mary Vernon; “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin”; “Natural Mystics”; “Nature and Artifice: Works on Paper from Dürer to Rembrandt”; Pam Evelyn; Richard Avedon; Richard Rezac; Shannon Cannings, Paul Winker, and Richard Patterson; Terrell James; “The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce”; Thomas Tallis and Janet Cardiff; Willie Binnie: Marfa, “Scapes,” and “On the Horizon: Contemporary Interpretations of Landscape”; Yayoi Kusama; “You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry”; and Zeke Williams. Today I am thankful for artists and all they do for us.

Coming soon! A new special issue of @athenaeumreview on generative AI in the arts and humanities, guest edited by Nils Roemer, with contributions from Andrew F. Scott, Katherine Davies, Charissa Terranova, Katrina Rushing, and Heidi Rae Cooley. Also featuring: - Barry Schwabsky on Poet Laureate Arthur Sze - Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Ovid’s The Art of Loving - Ed Simon on Holinshed and Hakluyt’s hidden epics - Daniel Asia on three books about life and death - Jonathan Hartmann on two versions of dystopia - David Carrier on Venice - Brian Allen on Murillo’s Jacob at the Meadows Museum Front Cover: Detail of Rebecca Jinxiu Han, Reflective Thinking on Digital Self-Expression, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Moses Pendleton, the choreographer and founder of MOMIX, will receive the $150,000 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at UT Dallas, presenting a lecture, dance performance and photography exhibit on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th! brettell-award.utdallas.edu/moses-pendleton/

My review of textile-related exhibitions is online in the Dallas Morning News. “You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry” at Dallas Contemporary (𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆) “Creatures and Captives: Painted Textiles of the Ancient Andes” at the Dallas Museum of Art “Esvin Alarcón Lam, Antonio Pichillá and Simón Vega: Nuestro lugar en estos mundos/Our Place in These Worlds” and “Kelly Tapia-Chuning: Selected Works” at Liliana Bloch Gallery

My review of Jóhann Eyfells at the Nasher Sculpture Center is in the October issue of Patron Magazine.

My note on Terrell James at Barry Whistler Gallery is online at the Dallas Morning News. Terrell James, Catalyst, 2025. Oil on canvas, 66 x 66 in. Photo: Barry Whistler Gallery

In memoriam: Frederick Turner 1943-2025 /essay/in-memoriam-frederick-turner-1943-2025/

Arthur Sze has been named the 25th poet laureate of the United States. In a preview of the fall issue of 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, Barry Schwabsky reflects on Sze's work: "Sze wants to encompass as much as Whitman—perhaps more, since he lives in a time when 'America' would be a limiting term and not an expansive one, and therefore he ignores national boundaries whether geographic or ideological—but he does so without conjuring an image of the poet who ties it all together." /essay/simultaneous-sequential/

My review of Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Center is online at the Dallas Morning News. #phenomenology Antony Gormley, Domain CVI, 2025, installed on the roof of JW Marriott Dallas Arts District. Stainless steel. 75 1/4 x 24 1/8 x 1/8 inches (191 x 61.4 x 42.1 cm). © Antony Gormley. Installation view of SURVEY: Antony Gormley, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, September 13, 2025–January 4, 2026. Photo by Kevin Todora, courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center

This second-hand story of a dream was told by the comparative literature professor Harry Levin, and eventually was widely repeated by his colleagues and successors when asked to explain what exactly it is that they do... Every time I walk into an art gallery, I imagine someone opening the door and calling into the back room: "The man is here to criticize the art."