Donald Kuspit

Elisa D’Arrigo, Viewer, 2025, glazed ceramic, 5 1⁄2 × 7 × 7”. “No wit without a portion of impertinence,” wrote Romantic poet John Wilson. And without question, Elisa D’Arrigo’s modestly scaled and wittily crafted ceramic sculptures at George Adams Gallery were proudly impertinent. From There to Here, 2022, appeared to be in the shape of a woman’s high-heeled shoe.

Helene Schjerfbeck: Wounded Warrior in the Snow By DONALD KUSPIT March 26th, 2026 Finland has consistently been ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world, but one wouldn’t be able to surmise that from the rather unhappy self-portraits of the Finnish painter Helene Sofia Schjerbeck (1862-1946).They outdo Munch’s in their picturing of misery, not to say psychotic despair, and their experimental handling, emblematic of a crumbling reality principle or reality testing.But Schjerfbeck...