Ever since I’ve known artist-writer-curator Stephen Truax he has been in a state of what curator Anne Luther calls “hopeful doubt,” perpetually examining what painting […]
Month: September 2016
Christopher Manning’s semblances and manipulations
Contributed by Laura Farrell / Through Christopher Manning�s current solo show “Everything as Perfect as it Seems,” the Fine Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College […]
A lobby symposium: Federico, Haske, Loft, Osman, Porcaro & Saltz
The Standard Motors Building in Long Island City is home to a spacious lobby gallery, organized and maintained by Deborah Freedman and Marjorie VanDyke. Freedman […]
Allison Schulnik’s frenzied equestrian feminisms
Contributed by Torey Akers / Allison Schulnik�s current solo show at ZieherSmith, “Hoof II,” posits personal mythology as a material condition for world-building. Each heavily […]
Katie Bell’s Miami adventure
Contributed by�Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein /� Katie Bell‘s work, comprising scavenged construction debris, skirts the line between sculpture and assemblage. Bell combed Miami for a month to […]
Sue Post: Intuitively chosen constraints
Contributed by Franklin Einspruch / Among several of my quixotic projects is to farm a heretofore neglected front yard for vegetables. It is, as they […]
Recommended reading
This edition includes links to upcoming Open Studio dates, Clyfford Still’s pastels, the Miami art fair participant lists, Thornton Willis upstate, the gold toilet at […]
Art and film: Bruce Conner, escape artist
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Evident in the transfixing Bruce Conner retrospective �Bruce Conner: It�s All True� at MoMA is a probing eye that seeks […]
IRL: The Study Room at the Metropolitan Museum
Contributed by Kate Liebman / The Metropolitan Museum�s Department of Drawings and Prints is celebrating its centennial this year, and has devoted a wall to […]
Julie Torres’ dispatches from Hudson, part 2
As promised in part one earlier this week, Julie Torres has sent her second report from Hudson‘s thriving gallery scene. Julie was a longtime – […]
Gregory Amenoff: Inside and Out
Contributed by Stephen Westfall / American abstraction was born in the landscape. Arthur Dove and Georgia O�Keeffe seem to have got there before anyone else, […]
Art exchange: Catherine Haggarty’s trip to Los Angeles
Contributed by Catherine Haggarty / I arrived at LAX on an early flight from Newark on Saturday, August 6. �I knew I would be staying […]
Art and film: Growing up at 70 Hester Street with Thomas Nozkowski and Joyce Robins
Contributed by Casimir Nozkowski / I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a building that was once a synagogue, a whiskey […]
Julie Torres’ dispatches from Hudson, part 1
We were recently surprised to learn that Bushwick artist Julie Torres has decamped from the Brooklyn neighborhood with which she’s long been associated. Now located […]
Peter Dudek returns from the Berkshires
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Peter Dudek spent his summer up in the Berkshires where he and his brother oversee Bascom Lodge, an old-fashioned hikers’ […]
