This week: The obituary for prolific New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson, a review of “Painting Paintings, an exhibition of David Reed’s paintings from the 1970s, […]
Author: Sharon Butler
President’s portrait
From the label text at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC: American artist Gilbert Stuart was commissioned to paint this portrait after the success […]
2017 College Art Association Conference intel
This week the College Art Association Annual Conference takes up residence at the New York Hilton Midtown. For non-members, onsite registration costs $595 for the […]
Quick study
Featuring links to articles about the Painting in the 1980s and Raymond Pettibon exhibitions, distracted by politics, Mother Jones, David Corn, Blue Mountain Center, I […]
Katharina Grosse on canvas
When I first saw Katharina Grosse’s paintings at Gagosian, my reaction was that they were too big, and that the surfaces were too flat–that they […]
Marina Adams: Radically soft and optimistic
Contributed by by Danielle Wu / Given the influx of politically oriented exhibitions lately, “Soft Power,” Marina Adams’s solo at Salon 94 offers an ethereal mind space that provides relief from all the strain and strife. Wavy blocks of bright color, from lemony yellows to saltwater blues, nest together, embracing each other’s outlines. Standing in front of her grand abstractions is like basking in warm sunlight.
In retrospect: Post-truth with David Brody and Elliot Green
Contributed by Luisa Caldwell and Matt Freedman / Back in December, the uncanny pushed its way into the room of exquisite landscape paintings by David […]
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The-world-is-falling-apart edition. MoMA protests Trump’s refugee ban, Dore Ashton has died, AFC offers to help artists affected by Trump’s executive orders, movies about politics, NEA […]
Infrastructure @ SEMINAR in DUMBO
Update: The show has been extended through March. Note: The artists talk scheduled on March 16 has been cancelled. Infrastructure: Land, Mind, CountryArtists from the […]
Christopher Moss: So not funny
Contributed by Matthew Weinstein / I really hope people get to see Chris Moss‘s show at Theodore:Art in Bushwick. I own a painting of his, […]
Drawing portfolio: Tamara Gonzales
In her second solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Tamara Gonzales presents a colorful series of pencil drawings that conjure Peruvian textiles and embroidery. […]
A brief history of food as art
The latest issue of Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly, called the “Atlas of Eating,” features travel articles related to food, such as “How Food Became Religion in Peru’s Capital City” […]
Art and Film: Elizabeth Murray and the splendor of the ordinary
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Elizabeth Murray, who died too young at 66 in 2007, stretched and contorted household scenes and objects into kinetic abstract […]
How GOP proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act may affect artists
Many self-employed artists have come to rely on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, for comprehensive, fairly-priced health insurance. The following article from […]
Studio visit with Kate Liebman
Contributed by Debbi Kenote / “I see myself as a figure painter,” Kate Liebman tells me as I sit in her Bushwick studio, where the […]
Quick study
This week: Resistance activities, some Blouin Artinfo gossip, RIP John Berger, two art historians try to stop a museum from sending a painting to the […]
Art and Film: Pablo Neruda and the triumph of art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / With Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, the principled advancement of civilization as the goal of politics seemed to […]
Recommended: Ongoing and upcoming exhibitions
In the unrelenting year-end swirl of grading, final reviews, impending global-upheaval, and extra holiday-related chores, you probably have a nagging feeling that you’ve missed some […]
Quick Study
The 2016-you’re-killing-me edition: Paul D’Agostino’s art round up at Brooklyn Magazine,�Ivanka’s art collection (and�Playboy bunny style), heartbreaking story about�opioid addiction, and an update on�the�$50�Stock Club […]
Art and Film: Damien Chazelle comes of age in La La Land
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /�Whiplash, Damien Chazelle�s remarkably assured and incendiary second feature from 2014, made the case that artistic accomplishment was predominantly a cloistered […]
