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Sunday, June 14, 2026
Curated by Kahlo biographer and art historian Hayden Herrera and Walker associate curator Elizabeth Carpenter, the presentation will include approximately 50 paintings from the beginning […]
Michael Kimmelman reviews the Rouault exhibition in today’s NYTimes. “At one time Rouaults reputation rivaled Matisses, and his clowns and prostitutes were as ubiquitously reproduced […]
Kerry Downey and Julián Kreimer conversation at the Sarah Lawrence College Heimbolt Center for Visual Art
Raphael’s innovations and influence
Angelo Vasta: Comfort in darkness 
Amorelle Jacox’s spiritual science
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Sharon’s Substack / June 1, 2026
David Humphrey: The hiker
Zombie Formalism vs. Paul Brown’s abundant abstraction
David Gilbert’s fugitive miracles
Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster: Loss and memory
Plagens: Ralph Meeker, or why I like James Brooks as much as de Kooning
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In June, in the wake of an exhausting month of fairs, NYC galleries are again presenting a full slate of exhibitions. A...
How the term “zombie formalism” killed the next generation
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In 2014, a single phrase reshaped the trajectory of contemporary abstract painting. When the late Walter Robinson – pai...
April Gornik’s unsettled landscapes
Contributed by Rebecca Allan / In “Liminal States,” Miles McEnery Gallery presented recent paintings by April Gornik, juxtaposing five of her familiar...
AAA at 90: Keep on looking
Contributed by Leslie Roberts / The exhibition “Abstract by Definition” at Art Cake celebrates the 90th anniversary of the American Abstract Artists (...
American Abstract Artists in the 1930s
Contributed by Jacob Cartwright / In 1957, Clement Greenberg penned the essay “The Late Thirties in New York,” reflecting on years that were formative...
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / This month I am looking forward to the opening of Putting it Together: Transforming Collage at 68 Prince Street Gallery...