Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / In �Showing A Little Leg� in the November issue of Harper�s, novelist Dan Keane offers a clever, peripatetic piece that […]
Year: 2013
Waltemath’s powerful Dinwoody drawings
At Schema Projects, the unusual name for Joan Waltemath’s 2005-08 series of graphite-on-Mylar drawings, “The Dinwoodies,” comes from Dinwoody petroglyphs (rock carvings) associated with Mountain […]
Dan Walsh: “I have a major commitment to my brushes”
As Jerry Saltz blogged last week, silkscreening, stenciling, assemblage, collage, spray painting andscraping all play a major role in contemporary painting. To his list, […]
Scolding artists, Saltz declares painting nearly dead
Scolding artists on Vulture today, Jerry Saltz reports that he is almost ready to declare painting dead. His rant reminds me of an old art […]
Providence report: Baziotes, Green, Bostrom, Myoda, Rubinstein…
My Instagram and Twitter friends know that I’ve been spending time in Providence this semester, where, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I’m teaching a course at […]
Quote of the Day: Jack Whitten
“I like the idea that people are suspended while asking questions about process. I like the idea that the viewer might be frozen by wonder. […]
“Abstraction is not a cul-de-sac”
“Out of Step,” opens on Tuesday, October 8, at the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery on the campus of New Jersey City University. Curated by Brendan […]
Mira Schor: Resonances and influences
Last year the College Art Asociation ArtSpace Committee selected Mira Schor to participate in the Distinguished Artists’ Interviews at the Annual Conference in New York. […]
David Gilbert: Documenting the lost moments
Who doesn’t love photographs of work-in-progress at artists’ studios? In his insightful and clever second solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, David Gilbert […]
By any other name: Casualism at DODGE
Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / Casualism � the explicit basis for Garis & Hahn�s group show �Dying on Stage� this past summer � is merely […]
Painting Toward Happiness: Episode 1: The Landscape
Snarky Jayson Musson, aka Hennessy Youngman from the hilarious Art Thoughtz series, channels Bob Ross in the first installment of his new series “Painting Toward […]
Keeting and Grill: Timeless energy
Each month Giampietro Gallery pairs painters for concurrent solo shows, and through October 5 Zachary Keeting and Clare Grill have work on display. Grill, whose […]
Remarks to young artists at UConn’s 2013 Art & Art History Convocation
For their 2013 Convocation, the UConn Department of Art and Art History invited New Zealand multimedia artist Shigeyuki Kihara and me to make presentations about emerging […]
Allison Miller’s dirty paintings and clumsy relationships
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Allison Miller’s paintings strike me as calculatedly–therefore artfully–imbecilic. In her second solo show at Susan Inglett, the Los Angeles artist […]
Quick Study: Chelsea snaps, reading links
As I traipse around the galleries, catch up on the backlog in my InBox, and read the other bloggers via my new Feedly RSS reader […]
