As New York’s Museum of Modern Art has shifted it’s focus away from painting and Modernism to concentrate on contemporary art and new genres, the […]
Year: 2013
Christopher Joy settles on the floor
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I met Christopher Joy a couple years ago at A-Space Gallery in West Haven when our work was included in […]
Judith Braun: Delicate symmetry
This week Roberta Smith reviews Judith Braun’s stunning drawings on view at Joe Sheftel. Readers may recall that Braun was one of the contestants on […]
The lives of artists
In addition to many other projects, artist Sharon Louden spent the last two years editing Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working […]
Helen Frankenthaler: More profound than lyric
After seeing the exhibition at Gagosian, I’ve become a huge Helen Frankenthaler fan. Curated by John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture […]
Thomas Germano: A response to Roberta Smith’s review of “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design”
My former colleague, painter and art historian Thomas Germano, sent an interesting rebuttal to Roberta Smith’s dismissive review of the Pre-Raphaelite show at the National […]
A death exaggerated
In the April 8 issue of New York Magazine: Jerry Saltz argues that gallery shows may no longer be relevant: Artists and dealers are as […]
Art History lesson: The Pre-Raphaelites, courtesy of Roberta Smith
“Pre-Raphaelite art is a volatile, highly complicated mixture of questionable intentions, literary erudition, ironclad nostalgia, meticulous realism, lavish costumes and a prescient technicolor palette. The […]
Portfolio: Becky Yazdan
I first encountered Becky Yazdan’s seductive paintings at the 2011 NurtureArt benefit, and this month she has a compelling show at Giampietro Gallery in New […]
Potshot of the Day: Ken Johnson
“This terrific exhibition makes me think that more artists should take time off from the grind of self-marketing.” — Ken Johnson in a NYTimes review […]
Ben Godward’s exploded view
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Crafted from aluminum, neon-colored foam, paint, and plastic materials such as bubble wrap, plastic cups, and other discarded detritus, Ben […]
Win win: UConn MFA students raising money for their NYC thesis exhibition
From the UConn Art & Art History blog: Please join us on Tuesday, March 26th, at the Benton Museum for an auction of artwork by […]
Brece Honeycutt’s book report
Working on a book collaboration with poet Dara Mandle for Norte Maar Projects, Brece Honeycutt is on the lookout for book shows, projects and sightings. […]
VIDEO: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discusses her deconstructed paintings
In the short video (below) from the Walker Art Center Video Channel, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discusses her relationship to painting in the exhibition Painter Painter. �I […]
Painting? Painting?
Contributed by Sharon Butler / At the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, curators Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan have organized “Painter Painter,” an exhibition comprising work by fifteen artists, some of whom are working with painting materials in ways that are often labeled “painting” but may be more firmly rooted in Minimalism and Process Art than with the formidable history of painting and abstraction. Considering the work presented in this show as well as the work selected for the deCordova Museum’s “Paint Things,” perhaps we aren’t experiencing an expansion of painting as the curators have proposed, but rather a return to handmade sculptural objects…that sometimes have paint on them or are hung on the wall.
