I’m squeamish about revisiting all the sketchbooks and journals from my early years, when I had no idea what art was about but still had […]
Month: April 2016
Robert Yoder: How stories became paintings
Notwithstanding his striking show “JAME6,” currently at Frosch & Portmann, Robert Yoder told me he had been angry and depressed last year and that painting […]
The gap between: “Unfinished” at the Met Breuer
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In recent years, artists have been interested in “slippage.” In painting, that often translates into an exploration of the space […]
Quick study
This week I’ve got links to articles about the Venice Biennale, art blogging grants, James Franco, the trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays at NYU, Margie […]
Rachel Beach and Julia Gleich: Strength and precarious balance
Pairing artists with choreographers often produces transcendent results, and it has a venerable tradition�Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, for instance. Earlier this month, I was […]
Raoul De Keyser: The loss of certainty
“Drift,” the sublime Raoul De Keyser exhibition on view at David Zwirner through April 23, was organized around a group of 22 small paintings known […]
Record Store Day: Amy Feldman, Thurston Moore, and Frank Rosaly
Artists often contribute artwork for album and CD covers–something listeners don’t get when they download music files from the Internet. Recently, Thurston Moore and Frank […]
Painting Picks: Lower East Side
If you have time to see some exhibitions in New York, here are a few promising shows to check out on the Lower East Side, […]
Art and Film: War and art�s uneasy survival
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Russian director Alexander Sokurov�s Francofonia is a strange and intriguing film � a kind of avant-garde point-of-view documentary. Do not […]
Newness: Melissa Meyer at Lennon, Weinberg
When artists experiment with a new medium or process, audaciously moving from one that they�ve fully mastered to less familiar territory, new ideas often […]
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist: Danielle Mysliwiec
Update: Danielle arrived yesterday. Danielle Mysliwiec, assistant professor in the art department at American University, has arrived for a seven-day artist’s residency at Two Coats […]
Ideas and influences: Joy Garnett
Joy Garnett is an artist and writer who, for the past ten years has served as the arts editor at Cultural Politics, a contemporary […]
Jonas Lund update, 2016 edition
In 2014 Jonas Lund (born 1984, Link�ping, Sweden) created a project called Flip City whereby he put tracking devices on generic-looking (i.e., Zombie Formalist) abstract […]
Quick study
A few articles this week caught my eye: an interview with Joe Bradley, a piece on a “new Rembrandt” in Amsterdam, the dirt on Trump’s […]
Catalogue essay: Raphael Rubinstein on Gary Stephan
Raphael Rubinstein originally wrote this essay for Gary Stephan‘s solo exhibition, on view through April 23, 2016, at Susan Inglett. / Some paintings pick arguments […]
Sam Jablon: Between seeing and reading
Guest contributor Adam Henry / Painter-poet Sam Jablon is poised to open a double show in April occupying both Freight + Volume’s downtown gallery and their […]
Deborah Brown: Restless exuberance
Deborah Brown�s virtuoso paintings feature rich color and tangled, looping brushstrokes that slip and slide. They embody restless exuberance. An insatiable and prolific painter, Brown […]
