�Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture� presents 2-dimensional work that explores the architecture and utopian ideas of the modern period. �The artists are […]
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How Thomas Nozkowski scaled back the rules and rhetoric
I forgot to include the three small Nozkowski paintings at the Armory Show on my list of most compelling small-scale paintings at the recent NYC […]
Death by blogging
In the NYTimes, Matt Richtel reports that blogging is stressful. “To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature […]
Poe art in London
In anticipation of the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe�s birth (1809), White Cube’s exhibition “You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil” explores the enduring […]
“Someone is going to come ’round here and buy all my paintings at one time for $40,000.”
Earl Cunningham (1893 – 1977), a prolific landscape artist who worked from memory, is considered a “folk modernist” whose work conveys some of the complex […]
America’s Lessness
My contribution to the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail considers the notion of readymade color, the implications of the current Whitney Biennial, and the […]
Eye-popping, snarling James Siena
In the NY Sun, David Cohen writes that the quality of line in James Siena’s new figurative grotesques relates to the quilt- or lattice-like grids […]
Gretchen Bennett’s love letters to Kurt Cobain in Seattle
Gretchen Bennett explores the pop-culture iconography of the Seattle area through drawings of the band Nirvana and its lead singer Kurt Cobain. Bennett’s source materials […]
Book review: Let’s See
In bookforum, Alan Gilbert reviews Peter Schjeldahl’s new book, Let�s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker. “What makes Schjeldahl a pleasure to read […]
An image, some words, and a sense of humor
Dave Eggers, Jesse Nathan, and Jordan Bass have organized Lots of Things Like This, a show that opens tonight at Apexart. Here’s an excerpt from […]
Mark Bradford’s live feed in LA
IN the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports about a sign that went up over Steve Turner Contemporary, a Wilshire Boulevard gallery directly across the street […]
Jaudon: Greater incident and interest
Current Art Pics takes a look at Valerie Jaudon’s show at Von Lintel Gallery, and includes plenty of links to related artists and materials. “Jaudon […]
Schjeldahl on Demuth: Slanting rays of abstracted light
Peter Schjeldahl reports: “Most esteemed for his floral and figurative, often homoerotic watercolors, Demuth in his painful last years, confined to his home town in […]
Small work: Fab Fair four
The Armory Show, Pulse and Red Dot had plenty of painting to look at this year, but here are four artists whose work called out […]
Art Bloggers @ Red Dot open discussion
Thanks everyone for coming to the art blogger panel discussion. I’m sure the audience had more to contribute, so the panel questions (we didn’t get […]
