Viennese painter Maria Lassnig, nearly 90, has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. An avant-garde pioneer […]
Author: Sharon Butler
NY Times Art in Review: Substraction, Dieter Roth
“Substraction,” curated by Nicola Vassell. Deitch Projects, New York, NY. Through May 24. Artist include Kristin Baker, Dan Colen, Rosson Crow, Elizabeth Neel, Sterling Ruby, […]
Dennis Hollingsworth’s first LA show in five years
In the LA Times, Holly Myers writes that “the paint — presumably dry, but only recently so — fills the room with a lush, heady […]
Jen Mazza: “It’s easier, maybe it’s more honest, to be mocking.”
In The Star-Ledger, Dan Bischoff profiles Jennifer Mazza, a painter who lives in Newark above Hobby’s Deli at Branford Place and Halsey Street. She’s been […]
Tony Blair’s official portrait: unbuttoned self-reinvention
In his blog at the Guardian Unlimited, Jonathan Jones reports that Tony Blair’s official portrait, painted by Phil Hale, was unveiled last night at the […]
Saltz your enthusiasm
On Monday, Cara Ober attended a Jerry Saltz lecture at MICA , and has posted the highlights at Bmoreart. “More like an episode of �Curb […]
House of Art opens in Niagara Falls
John Robbins reports in the Welland Tribune that there’s a new gallery in Niagara Falls. “It’s not much larger than a press-box eatery – a […]
Fearless Selma Waldman, 77, dies of cancer
Regina Hackett writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Selma Waldman, painter of blunt-force trauma, rape, degradation and murder, was practically unknown in Seattle art circles, […]
Ann Craven’s bird and moon paintings
While Craven first exhibited paintings of the moon in 1996, she began the current series of moon paintings�now numbering into the hundreds�in 2001, working on […]
Alexandre Iacovleff painting sold by Attleboro Art Museum: Does Culturegrrl know?
A painting by Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff donated to the Attleboro Art Museum a half century ago has been sold at auction for $713,000 to […]
Studio update: Habitat For Artists
Simon Draper has recently invited me to participate in “Habitat for Artists,” a site-specific, collaborative exhibition project in Beacon, NY. Draper, who is interested in […]
Where are Amalie Rothschild’s paintings?
When distinguished Baltimore artist and museum board member Amalie Rothschild died in 2001 at the age of 85, she left behind more than 1,200 paintings, […]
Small talk with Roberta Smith
In the NY Times, Roberta Smith notices that the galleries are full of small abstract painting lately.”Small may be beautiful, but where abstract painting is […]
Jake Berthot: Notes from Notes to Myself
Betty Cunningham presents fourteen paintings and a selection of drawings from the past three years. Each is a quiet contemplative, melancholy landscape-like space, reminiscent of […]
Modernist Joseph Solman dead at 99
“Joseph Solman, a painter who, with Mark Rothko and other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s and, into a new century, […]
