HaberArts: New York Art Reviews by John Haber

If you want attention, consider filling a gallery with truckloads of dirt. But if you want instead to have a lasting impact, consider importing geology memory by memory and bit by bit. Grace Knowlton has been doing just that for more than forty years...

For James Benning and Peter Hutton, “Nature Is a Discipline.” It can be a harsh discipline at that, at Miguel Abreu through March 8, and humanity can be even worse.
Discipline takes its time, much like nature. The filmmakers have been working separately for decades, and Hutton’s At Sea alone was a task spanning three years, completed in 2007. On screen it can seem to take a lifetime. It shows the construction and...

Sometimes events can overtake a work of art. The public squares of the world overflow with sculpture whose heroics speak only to the past. And sometimes events can take a while to catch up to art, lending it a greater meaning for the present. Let me...

Who knew that African American artists care so much about appearances? “Speaking of People” at the Studio Museum in Harlem may have one expecting a wry or subversive look at how magazines shape both people and appearances. It asks instead for the black...