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, […]
Author: Sharon Butler
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 Anni […]
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 […]
Punctuation: Derek Bourcier, Robert Medvedz, and Robert Yoder at Planthouse
Without the serial comma � the one inserted before �and� in a list of three or more items � a reader might infer from the […]
Serious drollery at Asya Geisberg
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Summer group shows are notorious for their looseness, but in �Character Traits� Matthew Craven has managed to curate one at […]
Off to Yaddo
Tomorrow I leave for nearly four weeks at Yaddo, the fabled artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York. Twenty-three artists and writers will be in […]
June 30: Andrew Ginzel’s list of NYC shows, openings, and events
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / June 30, 2015 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his […]
