Contributed by Sharon Butler / Many of Sangram Majumdar�s new paintings made of echoing lines, exposed charcoal under-drawings, and pale, often flat, unmodulated, color seem […]
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Korean monochrome: Suh Seung Won
Contributed by Raphael Rubinstein / Among the most welcome developments of the past few years in the U.S. art world has been the appearance, long […]
A Pocket Guide to Painting at SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2019
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / New York art fair season is here, and SPRING/BREAK, in its eighth year, has mounted another bold and energized display of […]
Judy Pfaff: Busting pictures to hell
Contributed by Jason Andrew / De Kooning once said, �Every so often a painter has to destroy painting.� Cezanne did it. Picasso did it. Then […]
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Reading links: NYC art fair cheat sheet, last chance for Rochelle Feinstein�s show at the Bronx Museum, Mira Schor�s lifetime achievement award, Allen Ruppersberg at […]
Matt Bollinger’s fictional universe
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / Matt Bollinger‘s show, “Three Rooms,} on view at Zurcher Gallery through March 2, comprises paintings, maquettes of interiors, and a […]
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Call it soulfulness
Contributed by Matt Mitchell / Reviewers have compulsively apprehended Lynette Yiadom-Boakye�s loving images of dark-skinned people as manifestations of black identity politics, despite the artist�s insistence that […]
Beyond the legend: James Baldwin at David Zwirner
Contributed by Gabriel Fine / It seems oddly fitting that the exhibition “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin” begins not with Baldwin’s […]
Art and Film: The lives of artists
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck�s film Never Look Away concerns a German painter named Kurt Barnert (the charismatic Tom Schilling), but […]
Erasure as aesthetic principle at Pierogi
Contributed by Gina DeCagna / Capacious and compelling in content, “Under Erasure,” co-curated by Raphael Rubinstein and Heather (Bause) Rubinstein on view at Pierogi Gallery through […]
Immediate, physical, emotional: Studio visit with Elise Siegel
Contributed by Leslie Wayne / For as long as I�ve known Elise Siegel, she has been making three-dimensional work about the psyche. Although her sculptures […]
Melissa Meyer: Close attention to familiar surroundings
Contributed by Sharon Butler / A Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts colleague once told me that taking a new route each day was the most […]
Carter Ratcliff: Art in the age of Trump
Contributed by Carter Ratcliff / Let�s begin with a painting�not sure it�s a work of art�that could have been painted only now, during Trump�s presidency. This […]
Stephen Maine and the ice trade
Contributed by Sharon Butler / KK Kozik�s novel ICEHOUSE Project Space, located on the quaint town green in Sharon, Connecticut, is an old 10 x […]
A gallery closes: EBK in Hartford
Contributed by Neil Daigle Orians / The first time I visited EBK Gallery on Pearl Street in Hartford was during my second-to-last semester in graduate […]
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Contributed by Sharon Butler / The semester is over and I�m finally catching up on the news. Here are links to some of the stories that caught […]
Yes, Julian Schnabel painted the Van Goghs
Contributed by Sharon Butler / While watching At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel’s new film about Vincent Van Gogh, I wondered if Schnabel had made the […]
Art and Film: Van Gogh’s sanity
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “One man’s insanity is another man’s genius,” Joyce Carol Oates has written. In the popular imagination, though, Vincent Van Gogh […]
Interview with Jane Swavely: Toxic glow
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When Jane Swavely isn’t working in the old-school LES loft where she raised two sons, she is at a cabin […]
Warhol at the Whitney: A provocateur for all seasons
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / There are certainly strong generational reasons for the Whitney to mount “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” its […]
