In the past few weeks I’ve received a slew of emails with images and press releases for shows that open next week, so I thought […]
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Studio visit: Sue McNally
Sue McNally is working on �This Land is My Land,� a series of large-scale landscape paintings, one for each of the fifty United States. During […]
Quick study: Art bus, Rauschenberg as bad parent, sexism in arts writing, Abelow, Two Coats Residency, Stanley Whitney, Stella retrospective, more
Art in a bus: According to The Art Newspaper, “works by Scottish Turner prizewinners and nominees will be seen across Scotland in a traveling show […]
Stern verve: Joseph Zito at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The artist’s weight in ominous lead slabs, a combat helmet spilling with rose petals — in another artist’s hands these conceptual pieces would probably seem trite or overbearing. But Joseph Zito’s unerringly fine calibrations of irony combined with his formidable technical range and astutely Gober-esque deployment of different materials — all on full display in installations cagily concatenated for a thirty-year retrospective at Lennon Weinberg in Chelsea — enables him to steamroller cliche and proceed directly to cool-eyed poignancy.
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Since they started using social media in 2009, painters have been able to connect directly with one another over vast geographic regions outside the gallery […]
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UPDATE: The show has been extended through September 30, 2015. Thank YOU, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery. Two of my paintings (pictured at top) are included […]
Your August Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Invitation in Seattle: Slow Enhancers
Rober Yoder, artist and director of SEASON, a gallery he runs out of a beautiful mid-century modern house in Seattle, has taken over Platform Gallery […]
Arturo Herrera: Reading abstraction
Few contemporary artists have a stronger urge to explore process and materiality than Arturo Herrera, who is best known for his collages and large-scale drooping-felt […]
Art and Film: Jem Cohen�s faith in art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / New York independent filmmaker Jem Cohen�s laconically moving Counting is quintessentially an artist�s movie. It is divided into fifteen segments, […]
Barbara Campbell Thomas: Ten Images (or An Abstract Painter�s Pilgrimage to Italy)
Guest Contributor Barbara Campbell Thomas / Journeying to Italy in order to bask in the perfectly toned muscular glow of High Renaissance art is a […]
Pop abstraction: Nicholas Krushenick at the Tang
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last week at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, I got a chance to […]
Revitalization by contamination: OBJECT’hood at Lesley Heller
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The premise of “OBJECT’hood,” a group exhibition at Lesley Heller Workspace curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, is that […]
Warp and weft: The grid at Mixed Greens
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Mixed Greens’ enterprising group exhibition “Common Thread,” on view through August 28, positions a 1973 Bauhaus grid study by […]
Albert Oehlen’s genius
If paintings were guests at a dinner party, Albert Oehlen�s would be the most popular raconteurs. Everyone would clamor to sit next to them, leaving […]
Ruth Root�s deep integration
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Ruth Root�s seven striking shaped canvases, on display at Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea and all untitled, might recall Elizabeth […]
Seeing black at Brian Morris
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Cuts Noon Light,� the challenging three-person exhibition at Brian Morris Gallery on Chrystie Street, gets its title from a Pablo […]
William Faulkner on discrepancies and contradictions
As a guest at Yaddo this summer (studio pictured above with work in progress), I have access to a lovely library, which is located in […]
Your July Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Elizabeth Kley and Conrad Ventur: Improbable harmony at Regina Rex
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / A two-person exhibition involving a couple of clearly kindred artists stands a good chance of being demurely satisfying on account […]
