This Friday, August 5, please join me at Outlet Fine Arts in Bushwick for the opening reception of “ISSUE 001: EXPENSIVE POETRY, the release of […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Upstate: Victoria Palermo at The Hyde Collection
Inspired by Isabella Stuart Gardner, a Boston philanthropist who traveled the world amassing a remarkable art collection and then built a palazzo on the Fenway […]
Yoshiaki Mochizuki’s shifting light
Contributed by Will Fenstermaker / When the light shifts, Yoshiaki Mochizukis paintings come alive. Surfaces that seem like dull mirrors shift into prismatic events as […]
Email: Report from a colonial farm
Brece Honeycutt, a friend and colleague who divides her time between New York and a farm at the foot of the Berkshires in Massachusetts, recently […]
Eric Aho shadows his father at the New Britain Museum
The energetic paint handling in Eric Aho�s work is like a shot of adrenaline for contemporary painters. In a solo exhibition at the New Britain […]
MTA Arts Spotlight: Faith Ringgold at 125th Street Station
From the MTA website: “Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines is a mosaic mural that honors Harlem notables and makes them fly. The mural on […]
Scrapbook: The Outer Cape experience
Last week I went to Cape Cod, where I had paintings in an exhibition at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. I […]
Berlin postcard: Edmund de Waal�s rich austerity measures
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /Edmund de Waal�s pensive exhibition, recently up at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, was inspired by the artist�s intensive reading of […]
Cheat sheet: Summer group shows (and what curators are writing about them)
Often curated by artists, summer group shows provide a window into the hive mind. Accordingly, I’ve put together a short list of exhibitions that are […]
Lucio Fontana’s ghost: Amy Feldman, Maximilian Schubert, Alan Wiener at 11R
In 1947, Lucio Fontana (Italy, 1988-1968) launched the Movimento Spaziale in Italy. The movement was primarily concerned with the utilization of neon, radio, television to […]
Hilma af Klint at Serpentine Gallery: Sustenance and Possibility
Contributed by Barbara Campbell Thomas / I first laid eyes on the work of Hilma af Klint (Stockholm, 1862-1944) in 1999, while an MFA student […]
Meet the new Bob Ross: Clara Lieu and ART PROF
I recently received an email from Clara Lieu, an adjunct professor in the Illustration program at RISD. Lieu has partnered with Thomas Lerra, a manager […]
Quick study
This week: Summer reading, teaching update (Parsons in the fall), Trump art, gallery closings, Picabia retrospective, and a visit to Cape Cod… Trump the muse […]
Last chance: Joanne Greenbaum’s glorious starts and fits
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The sheer ebullience and playfulness of Joanne Greenbaum’s big untitled abstract paintings, on display only through July 1 at Rachel […]
Neighbors: Marci MacGuffie @ 55 Washington
For artists who spend long hours working alone in the studio, the conversations that take place in the hallway with other artists are crucial. For […]
Collaboration: Archie Rand and Bill Berkson
Before poet and art critic Bill Berkson died earlier this month, he had been collaborating with artist Archie Rand on a re-working of “Room Tone,” […]
Men curating women
Last week “The Female Gaze, Part 2: Women Look At Men,” an exhibition that includes many rich and inventive paintings, opened at Cheim and Read. […]
Studio visit with Greg Drasler
Visiting an artist’s studio before a new body of work is packed and shipped off for a solo show can be a stirring experience. The […]
Street Smarts: Charles Goldman @ Songs For Presidents
Guest Contributor Mary Addison Hackett / I went to graduate school in Chicago with Charles Goldman and still remember one of the first pieces he […]
Nicole Eisenman and the triumph of painting
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Just about every piece in Nicole Eisenman�s nobly minatory exhibition �Al-ugh-ories� at the New Museum, up through June 26, pulses […]
