�Suburban Sublime,� curated by Lucia Sanroman. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA. Through Sept. 23. �Condensation,� paintings by Adam Belt. Quint Contemporary […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Edwin Dickinson’s forgotten gothic melodrama
“Edwin Dickinson: The Provincetown Years, 1912-1937,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. Through September 23. In the Boston Globe, Ken Johnson reports: “Unlike those […]
Marlene Dumas receives �55,000 D�sseldorf art prize
Jennifer Allen reports in ArtForumt: “Painter Marlene Dumas has won Germany’s prestigious D�sseldorf art prize, worth �55,000 ($74,875). As the APA and DPA report, the […]
LaBute premiere: “The Shape of Things” at Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston
Terry Byrne reports in the Boston Globe: “Neil LaBute’s drama ‘The Shape of Things’ explores often misguided assumptions about both art and relationships. For the […]
Tangled up in blue
Charlie Finch reports on artnet: “In 1974, after living in Woodstock with his young family for seven years, Dylan moved back to MacDougal Street and […]
Artist’s legacy: Alice Neel
“Alice Neel,” directed and written by Andrew Neel. Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Various dates through Oct. 7. In […]
Guggenheim’s Pousette-Dart show draws reviews
“Richard Pousette-Dart,” curated by Philip Rylands with Luca Massimo Barbero. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. August 17- Sept. 25. Exhibition travels to […]
Painter-turned-director Greg Mottola scores with “Superbad”
Greg Mottola, graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art (notable grads: Andy Warhol, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin), directed “Superbad,” which opens in theaters today. Rumor […]
A minimalist in Edinburgh
“Michael Craik: Razed to the Ground,” Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Through Aug. 30. Visit his website. Susan Mansfield in The Scotsman: “Paint is […]
August travel tip: Warhol outpost in Slovakia
Stephanie MacLellan reports in the Toronto Star: “When Andy Warhol thought about his 15 minutes of fame, he probably didn’t expect any of them would […]
Elizabeth Murray: tributes and obituaries
In ArtForum, Linda Yablonsky reports that the “Elizabeth Murray Praise Day” at the Bowery Poetry Club, sponsored by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, “provided a […]
Art for the centrally isolated at Cornell
“Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art,” The Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Through Septmeber 30. Arthur Whitman reports at Big Red […]
Sylvia Plath was a teenage artist
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual, edited by Kathleen Connors. Oxford University Press, USA (October 26, 2007) Francesca Martin reports in the Guardian: […]
Lost in the beginnings of infinity: Pousette-Dart at Guggenheim
“Richard Pousette-Dart,” curated by Philip Rylands with Luca Massimo Barbero. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. August 17- Sept. 25. Exhibition travels to […]
IMHO: Elizabeth Murray, a neo-feminist icon
On Sunday, at her home in upstate New York, Elizabeth Murray died of complications from lung cancer. She was duly renowned as a passionate, energetic, […]
Preserving the Berlin Wall puts murals at risk
Adam Williams at Reuters: “Politicians and artists urged Berlin’s authorities on Monday to let them rebuild the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall before […]
The art of restitution
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Berlin Street Scene” (1913�14), on view at Neue Galerie, New York, NY. Through September 17. In the Village Voice, Morgan Falconer reports: […]
Muralists at work in Baghdad
Stephen Farrell in the NYTimes reports: “Dead blocks, they call them, the most visible legacy of the latest war in a city with a long […]
Pioneering modernist Helen Lundeberg’s WPA mural restored
The History of Transportation Mural Works Project Administration (WPA) Arts project, completed in 1940 and designed by Helen Lundeberg. Located in the Art Park at […]
Warhol vs. Banksy: celebrity, satire and voyeurism
“Warhol Vs Banksy,” The Hospital, London. Through Sept. 1. Louise Jury in the Evening Standard reports: “Duncan Cargill, The Hospital’s creative director, said: ‘Implicitly, Warhol […]
