“In what may be the smallest art gallery in the United States, you can discover the whole world.” Blake Gopnik reports in The Washington Post. […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Agnes Martin daydreams
In The Brooklyn Rail, Jeremy Sigler makes a pilgrimage to see Agnes Martin’s last drawing. “I went to Agnes Martin�s drawing show at Peter Blum […]
“Bitter slog” for painting in the Whitney Biennial
“Devotees of painting will be on a near-starvation diet, with the work of only Joe Bradley, Mary Heilmann, Karen Kilimnik, Olivier Mosset and (maybe) Cheyney […]
Tracking proto-feminist Loren MacIver
Check out my article about Loren MacIver in The Brooklyn Rail’s March issue.“In my first college painting course, which I took several years after completing […]
2 Biennial artists in the MassArt family
My alma mater sent this notice today, and since the Whitney Biennial’s painting selection is pretty skimpy, I’m passing it along as my primary coverage […]
Student reporter flummoxed by abstraction
In Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen, student Zachariah Bryan declares that he hates abstract art. Apparently �Red Player,” a Jack McLarty painting hanging in the […]
Bold and brainy: John Zinsser and Ruth Root
In the NY Sun, painter/critic Stephen Maine usually provides an entertainingly illuminating read. This week, Maine considers abstract painters Ruth Root and John Zinsser. “Creative […]
MoMA’s sexism resurfaces (again)
At her well-tended art blog, Joanne Mattera’s specialty is geometric abstraction, so naturally she stopped by to see “Color Chart” at MoMA this week. Joanne […]
Willats’s conceptual tower drawings in Berlin
In ArtForum, Saskia Draxler recommends Stephan Willats’s show at Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin. “This exhibition consists entirely of conceptual drawings produced between 1983 and […]
Readymade color at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art’s “Color Chart”explores what happens when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the […]
March museum openings
At artnet, a roundup of exhibitions opening in March includes Directions — Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Color […]
Naming opportunity in Connecticut
Are you, or an art collector you know, drawn to the idea of having a fine art center named in your honor? At Eastern Connecticut […]
June Wayne still acting out in Hollywood
In the LA Times, Suzanne Muchnic visits with 90-year-old artist/activist June Wayne. Rutgers University, which established the June Wayne Archive and Study Center in 2002 […]
Hot metal burns in Pittsburgh
Artists Carley Jean Parrish and Ed Parrish witnessed their Etna home and studio burn to the ground on January 17. They lost all the work […]
On the waterfront: Diana Horowitz at Hirschl & Adler
Diana Horowitz’s second solo exhibition at Hirschl & Adler features close to twenty new paintings, ranging in size from 8 x 10 inches to 22 […]
