Art writing round up

In her bi-weekly gallery review, Jessica Dawson takes a look at Laurel Lukaszewski's current exhibition at Project 4 Gallery and calls "Sakura," 3,020 porcelain cherry blossoms that spread across both floors of the gallery, "a meditation on the fleeting beauty of nature."  Dawson also comments on Anne Chan's work at Hamiltonian Gallery: "Her house of cards reminds us how deeply we identify with our jobs and how fleeting those identifications can be -- especially in these times." Read the review HERE.

Maura Judkis writes about Geoffrey Aldridge's exibition called "Hole in the Wall," a reference to New York's Stonewall Inn.  "Forty years after the riots there, the 34-year-old Aldridge evaluates their effect on his generation of gay men and demonstrates the burden they must bear through a video piece where he attempts to lift several cement blocks and is nearly crushed under their weight."  Read the rest HERE.

About "Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions and Conundrums in Contemporary Art" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Michael O'Sullivan says, "This is a show that understands that the art of seduction is about not giving too much information." More about the show HERE.

Blake Gopnik says the "Terra Cotta Warriors" currently on display at National Geographic are more of a really good history lesson than art exhibit.  We enjoy these displays because we have "an almost primal need for evidence, authenticity and aura."  Find out what he means HERE.

Deborah Dietsch writes about "Intersections" at the Phillips Collections, a series that "invites contemporary artists to create pieces based on their reactions to treasures from the Phillips' holdings. [Museum director] Kosinski views the effort as extending founder Duncan Phillips' vision of the museum as both 'an experiment station' and intimate place for considering the formal relationships among artworks." Read about the first in this series HERE.