I’ve been pretty swamped lately, so when I glanced at the headlines about Dill and Ruscha, I thought they were going to lose their studios. […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Kirchner’s angular unhotties
I saw the Kirchner exhibition at MoMA yesterday, and found his use of jangly discordant color, combined with obsessively repetitive, diagonal brushstokes completely original and […]
Thinking Beyond The Unthinkable
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Taking a little break from painting, I’d like to recommend Jonathan Stevenson’s new book, Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable, which was […]
Out on the Island: Knoebel, Rivers and Krasner
“Imi Knoebel: Knife Cuts,” Dan Flavin Institute, Bridgehampton, NY. Through October 12. Ben Genocchio reports in the NYTimes that Dia is featuring two Imi Knoebel […]
In Sotheby’s promo, Hirst vows to slow production
On Bloomberg Scott Reyburn reports that Damien Hirst will stop making the spin and butterfly paintings that are among his biggest sellers. “Hirst’s trademark spot […]
Geo/Mattera visits MoMA
Joanne Mattera saw the Geo/Metric print and drawing show at MoMA, and reports back with a jpeg-rich two-part post. The show surveys the recurring and […]
Mid-century British abstraction redux
Roger Hilton (1911-1975) is one of the second wave of St. Ives artists who succeeded the Ben Nicholson generation in the 1950s and 1960s. Terry […]
Jonathan Jones urges museums to throw out the TV
Guardian critic/blogger Jonathan Jones wishes art galleries and museums would stop turning themselves into video lounges. “I don’t think people realise how odd their behaviour […]
Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon
“I think Bacon is one of the greatest painters of all time. He’s up there with Goya, Soutine and Van Gogh: dirty painters who wrestle […]
Customs officials give Zhang Hongtu painting crit and seize painting
Human Rights in China reports that on July 3 Chinese customs officers seized a painting by China-born, New York-based artist Zhang Hongtu, which depicts the […]
Alternative artworld
The annual outdoor art festival rolled into my town this weekend, clogging the streets with gawking tourists and hordes of �art enthusiasts.� It’s an alternative […]
NY TImes Art in Review: Christian Vincent, PN&FP2
Christian Vincent: Runyon Canyon,” Mike Weiss, New York, NY. Through Aug. 16.Ken Johnson reports: “At a moment when articulately imaginative representational painting seems in short […]
Growing season at UBS Art Gallery
The UBS Art Gallery’s exhibition, “Implant,” features work ranging from botanically accurate sculptures and paintings, to abstract gestures inspired by flora, to conceptual works suggesting […]
Mie Olise Kj�rgaard perches in Houston
London-based Mie Olise Kj�rgaard, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a finalist for the 2008 John Moores Painting Prize and will be participating in the […]
Kentridge print show in Williamstown
William Kentridge works in the tradition of socially and politically engaged artists such as William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honore Daumier, and Kathe Kollwitz . He’s […]
