My contribution to the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail is a review of the New Museum’s Tomma Abts show. “For Abts, honesty and sincerity […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book
In celebration of The Nancy Book, published by the Siglio Press, Tibor de Nagy has organized a show of Joe Brainard’s drawings of the Nancy […]
Taaffe retrospective: Bending the shape of time
In ArtForum, Bob Nickas reviews Philip Taaffe’s current retrospective at the Kunstmuseum-Wolfsburg in Germany. “It’s not so easy to recall that first hit, that immediate […]
Deborah Kass interview at Thirsty Beach
In the May edition of Thirsty Beach, Caroline Cummings visits Deborah Kass in her studio, and they chat about Kass’s recent show at Paul Kasmin. […]
Warren Buffett says his job is like painting the Sistine Chapel
“I love painting my own painting. I come down to the office, I get on my back, and I start painting. And I think I’m […]
Newsflash: Some artists can write
Jen Graves reports in The Stranger that some well-known Northwest artists have banded together to write a newsletter. “Last week in a group of artists, […]
Jennifer Bartlett revisits dotty grids
In The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edith Newall reports that Jennifer Bartlett has returned unambiguously to her past in her current show at Locks Gallery. “At 97 […]
Berthot and Dodd: Compare and contrast
“Both artists engage in a significant degree of abstraction within their realism in the sense of excluding extraneous detail and homing in on what they […]
Philip Guston’s stories
The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first major survey of Guston’s drawings in 20 years. Organized by the KunstMuseum Bonn, and the Staatliche Graphische […]
Dieter Roth: The radicalism of social disengagement
In the NY Sun, Stephen Maine reports that Dieter Roth’s work possesses some of the neo-Dada characteristics of Pop art, but is “as enmeshed with […]
Christine Gray’s failed geometry, failed architecture, and failed illusionism
Christine Gray’s paintings depict models she creates using common craft materials, the works become fantastically abstracted scenes based on objects domestic and kitsch. “I represent […]
“The lice are part of the art.”
According to BBC News, seven German artists are living with lice in their hair in an Israeli museum for three weeks in the name of […]
Tony Fitzpatrick’s city of ghosts
In the Chicago Sun-Times Kevin Nance profiles Tony Fitzpatrick, whose expeditions with his dad have become the central narrative of his just-completed magnum opus: ‘The […]
Paul Wonner, 87, dies in San Francisco
Paul Wonner, long associated with Bay Area Figuration, died Wednesday in San Francisco of natural causes on the eve of his 88th birthday. Art critic […]
It’s official: Peter Schjeldahl writes good, er, I mean, well
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute have named Peter Schjeldahl the winner of the 2008 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. Established in […]
