Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In the watching, video artist Shannon Plumb’s debut feature Towheads, which MoMA screened last week and has wisely purchased […]
Month: January 2014
Sarah Faux : Report from Yale
Guest Contributor Sarah Faux just completed her first semester in the Yale MFA program. She writes about the changes in her work and the diversity […]
SURVEY: Bleaching, staining, and dyeing
Matthew J. Mahler, B T W #1[by the way], 2013, acrylic and dye on canvas, 36 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Sardine. In fall 2012, […]
Resolution and dissolution at once: Angelina Gualdoni at Asya Geisberg
But Mr. Cotter, most painters paint because they love painting
A couple days ago in the NYTimes, Holland Cotter, extremely agitated by the sorry state of the art world, ranted about the detrimental effect big […]
ON FILM: Tornatore�s creepy art auctioneer in The Best Offer
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) admiring his secret collection of ladies in Giuseppe Tornatore�s The Best Offer. Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In Giuseppe Tornatore�s The […]
Masking strategies: Residue in DC
At Adah Rose Gallery, Brooklyn artist and writer Brian Dupont has curated “Residue,” an exhibition that celebrates contemporary artists’ gleeful, unapologetic, and often imperfect use […]
Idiosyncratic rule in Brooklyn
Two recommendations for Brooklyn gallery visits: At Outlet Fine Art, seasoned painter Hermine Ford continues her exploration of urban decay and renewal in quirky shaped […]
Jane Kent: Unfolded forms, evocative shapes
Jane Kent, Blue Nose, 2013, silkscreen printed, 9 colors Somerset 26 3/8 � 18 1/2 inches. Printed/published Aspinwall Editions, ed. of 35 Jane Kent spent […]
Quick study: New Year’s edition with Honeycutt, Winkleman, Viveros-Faun�, Schor, Twitter, and Kohler
2014 is off to a good start. I just returned from Schenectady where I installed paintings (image above of installation in process) for “Blueprint,” a […]
On film and painting: Repetitive stress
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Wall Street hustler Jordan Belfort and sculptor Camille Claudel had little in common, and the recent movies about the lives […]
Etienne Zack: Manufacturing meaning and history
Guest contributor Dion Kliner / All history is redacted history (Papers I, image posted above), which is to say that all history is manufactured […]
Christopher Wool’s poetry of errors
Christopher Wool is obsessed with doing things wrong. In his retrospective at the Guggenheim, comprising nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper, Wool demonstrates […]
