Martha Schwendener in the NYTimes: “Ah, summer. Time to venture into the great American outdoors � or at least consider the concept by paying a […]
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NYTimes Friday art reviews: Alex Hay
Roberta Smith reviews: “Alex Hay�s paintings have always operated in the unlikely gap between modernist abstraction and a precise form of rendering that relates to […]
Mart�n Ram�rez drawings at the San Jose Museum of Art
Kenneth Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle: “These days, art museums frequently introduce important exhibitions with orientation materials. They seldom enlist another institution to do […]
Sublime portraits of children reveal evolving notions of innocence
Children in portraits were first depicted only as tiny adults, little devils, or props to their parents’ ambition. In The Guardian, Antonia Fraser charts the […]
NY Magazine features Chelsea gallery recommendations
In New York Magazine, Karen Rosenberg asks, given �an afternoon in Chelsea: which shows are worth the sweltering slog?� Before all the galleries close and […]
Unrehearsed expressiveness in art
Kenneth Baker in The San Francisco Chronicle recommends The Passionate Gesture: “Hackett-Freedmaninvites us to think about whether and how we can recognize unrehearsed expressiveness in […]
From the archives: Donald Kuspit on Sean Scully
On artnet, Donald Kuspit’s erudite review of Sean Scully’s show (Sept. 26, 2006-Jan. 15, 2007) at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. For anyone interested in […]
“In Her Own Right: Minnesota�s First Generation of Women Artists” at the Minnesota Museum of American Art
Marianne Combs in a Minnesota Public Radio broadcast about pioneering work by Minnesota’s first professional women painters: “Any story about American women artists involves grit […]
What is painting?
‘What Is Painting?” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Through September 17 In The Village Voice, R.C. Baker recommends the show: “This big, […]
Edward Hopper sale in Pennsylvania: early works on paper
Geoff Gehman of The Morning Call reports: “On Saturday, the 125th anniversary of Edward Hopper’s birth, eDavid Gallery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will open a show-sale […]
Ink on paper at Gallery Joe
Edith Newhall reviews of the show in The Philadelphia Inquirer: “In the lush Philadelphia summer, with vivid color running rampant, ink on paper can look […]
Fadia Haddad retrospective: fluttering between the chaos of life and death
Farah Aridi writes in The Daily Star: “Amid the mayhem of Lebanon’s current crisis combo of security concern, political deadlock, institutional meltdown and existential dread, […]
Neil Jenney resurfaces at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
In the NYTimes, Grace Glueck reports: “Whoa! Could this be the work of Neil Jenney, a star of the 1970s Neo-Expressionist movement, who first intrigued […]
Clive Owen and George Clooney in forgers’ tale
Vanessa Thorpe reports in The Observer: “The extraordinary story of how British forgers John Myatt and John Drewe joined together to con art experts and […]
Jeff Koons on feeling good
In Graeme Green’s sixty second Metro interview with Jeff Koons, Koons declares “I like to make people feel good about themselves and connected with themselves, […]
