This month well respected art critics Mario Naves and John Ashbery both present their collages in New York. In the NY Sun, David Cohen covers […]
Author: Sharon Butler
The meaning of making
In a recent NY Times art review, Roberta Smith lamented the fact that the current crop of artists seems to have opted out of skill-building […]
Nicole Eisenman in Berlin
In ArtForum, Nicole Eisenman talks to Brian Sholis about her new work. “During the past fifteen years,” Sholis writes, “New York-based Eisenman has created a […]
Christopher Ulivo: Armchair adventurer
Christopher Ulivo’s show, recommended as Best in Painting by Time Out, opens this week at Susan Inglett. According to the gallery’s press release, Ulivo’s conceit […]
Sue Williams’s linemaking logic
In the Village Voice Michael Spies writes about his visit to Sue Williams’s Montauk studio where they discussed work for her show, opening today, at […]
Find stolen paintings, collect $200,000
An Encino art collection that included works by Marc Chagall, Hans Hofmann, Chaim Soutine, Arshile Gorky, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, and Kess van […]
7 painters tell us their secrets
Next week the 25th winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, the UK�s largest contemporary painting competition with a first prize of �25,000 and total […]
Studio Update: So long, little shack
When I recently vacated my summer studio shack at Habitat For Artists, Simon Draper, creator/curator of the unusual HFA residency project in Beacon, NY, asked […]
Elizabeth Peyton: Part of the lifestyle
Publisher’s Weekly’s Charles Dee Mitchell takes a look at recent and upcoming lists from publishers and sees several shared approaches toward producing and distributing books […]
Sarah Walker: Layer upon layer upon layer
In the press release, Sarah Walker claims to use painting “as a tool for perceptual recalibration that enables viewers to detect and intuit disparate spatial […]
Rouault’s comedy of errors
The current exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art reveals Georges Rouault’s keen sense of disjunction, unintended consequences, and ironic reversals. This irony (a sometimes […]
Ary Stillman: Rewriting art history on his behalf
In the Jewish Herald-Voice, Aaron Howard declares that history is harsh to painters. “In certain periods of art history, a few celebrity painters get the […]
MoMA hires Ann Temkin as Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture
In the NYTimes, Carol Vogel reports that the Museum of Modern Art has chosen one of its own curators, Ann Temkin, to succeed John Elderfield, […]
Art criticism crit: Paddy Johnson on Tim Griffin
Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City writes that ArtForum�s Editor in Chief Tim Griffin “offers up more art speak and over quoted scholarship in the […]
The Akus Gallery builds consensus
This week the biennial faculty exhibition opens at Eastern Connecticut State University, where I’ve been a full-time faculty member for the past eight years. This […]
