Arts generalist Michael O’Sullivan ‘s clueless Washington Post review of Amy Sillman’s show proves why more painters and artists must start writing. “There’s something underneath […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Julia Jacquette: “I’m a sucker for house porn”
Ariella Budick reports that Jacquette bases her virtuosically executed paintings on photographs from glossy shelter magazines. “Chandeliers glitter, massive gilt mirrors festoon palatial bathrooms and […]
James Nelson’s coiling, sausagey shapes
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall reports that the faint, lacy pencil-rendered patterns in James Nelson’s drawings of a few years ago have given way […]
“Mediocre art in expensive frames”
Two Coats of Paint won’t get to the fairs until tomorrow, and I suspect we’ll love the sheer volume of paintings (a good antidote to […]
Brian Rutenberg: “I believe in the power of art that has strong ties to a specific place but also has universal berth”
Brian Rutenberg’s recent paintings are influenced by Cubism, which he calls the “delicious conflict between naturalism and abstraction or� bending the laws of nature to […]
Deborah Brown loves animals
At artnet, blogaphobic Charlie Finch writes that his old pal Deborah Brown has captured the feeling of Pier 25 and other natural NYC sites in […]
Self-hallucination suggesting a multiple organ transplant performed by a surgeon with a degree in Surrealism: Carroll Dunham’s early work
“Self-hallucination which initially suggests a multiple organ transplant performed by a surgeon with a degree in Surrealism” is how Klaus Kertess described Dunham’s aesthetic back […]
Show of the week: James Siena At Pace Wildenstein
From the press release: James Siena�s new work, completed in 2006 and 2007, includes approximately 20 enamel paintings on aluminum or copper and 60 works […]
“Painting is only the prop”
At Catherine’s Art Tours blog, art historian and critic Catherine Spaeth assesses the importance of painting in Whitney Biennials past and present. “One of the […]
The nakedly emotional bravura of Howard Hodgkin
Alan Hollinghurst writes in The Guardian that Howard Hodgkin, now in his 70s, continues to make reckless,unanswerably new paintings.”In many of his paintings, Hodgkin famously […]
Pathetic Fallacy (Second Version): Toby Ziegler in Santa Monica
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports that 35-year-old British artist Toby Ziegler skillfully mashes up art history and current technology with cheerful, pungent eccentricity […]
Non-bombastic: Blue and white, red
The fiercely-contested presidential election, energized by the Iraq debate, is bombarding us with patriotic imagery: the waving flags, the campaign buses plastered with candidate logos […]
The complex privacy of James Bishop
James Bishop’s relatively rare drawings and paintings— which American poet and art critic John Ashbery once called “part air, part architecture” — combine European and […]
Amy Sillman’s couple fixation
In the Washington City Paper Maura Judkis reports that the �he� and �she� of Amy Sillman�s solo show at the Hirshhorn Museum, �Third Person Singular,� […]
Zimmerman saws wood in Chelsea
For Andrew Zimmerman’s first solo show, he has cut wood panels into wavy strips with a jigsaw, and reassembled them to create an organic geometry. […]
