In case you’ve heard the term “constructivism” bandied about in discussions of Shepard Fairey and ObamArt, but aren’t quite sure what it actually means, check […]
Museum Exhibitions
Munch: Navigating the messiness of his own present
The Munch exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Jay A. Clarke, brings together approximately 150 works, including 75 paintings and 75 works […]
Hofmann’s push-pull at the Rose
This winter the Rose Art Museum presents work that painting guru Hans Hofmann created for architect Josep Sert�s Chimbote Project in Peru. Created for a […]
CoBrA: The filter of nostalgia ultimately defangs the beast
In ArtForum Karen Kurczynski reviews three recent sixtieth-anniversary exhibitions dedicated to CoBrA, at the Mus�es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels (where the new […]
Bonnard: Folding together form, color and feeling
Roberta Smith on Pierre Bonnard at the Met: “Working simultaneously on several unstretched canvases tacked directly to the wall, he painted largely from memory with […]
Jewel-encrusted vs. diamond-dusted
I spent a few hours rambling around the Met this week and saw the survey of Raqib Shaw’s opulent jewel-encrusted paintings based on Hans Holbein […]
Are today’s emerging artists yesterday’s Mad Men?
Clever ideas–once confined to the brainstorming sessions of Mad Men and corporate art directors– have become the backbone of contemporary art practice, especially among recent […]
Shows I’d like to see: “Oranges and Sardines” at the Hammer
Curator Gary Garrels worked with six abstract painters”Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool” to select one of […]
Miro Miro on the wall
The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl on the Miroshow at MoMA: “‘I want to assassinate painting,’ Joan Miro is reported to have said, in 1927. Four […]
Philip Pearlstein’s “saucer of formalism”
The Montclair Museum’s retrospective of Philip Pearlstein’s work includes an award-winning artwork from high school, expressionist works of the 1950s, post-1961 female and male studio […]
Roberta and Elizabeth, BFF
In the NY Times Roberta Smith calls Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits girly. “By fits and starts, this exhibition reveals the complicated fusion of the personal, the […]
Morandi: “I don’t ask for anything except for a bit of peace which is indispensable for me to work.”
The big Giorgio Morandi survey that opens this week at the Metropolitan Museum features over 100 paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings. In the New Yorker […]
Rouault’s comedy of errors
The current exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art reveals Georges Rouault’s keen sense of disjunction, unintended consequences, and ironic reversals. This irony (a sometimes […]
Geo/Mattera visits MoMA
Joanne Mattera saw the Geo/Metric print and drawing show at MoMA, and reports back with a jpeg-rich two-part post. The show surveys the recurring and […]
Sharon Louden lights up Birmingham
In The Birmingham News Michael Huebner reports that The Birmingham Museum of Art has commissioned New York artist Sharon Louden to create 12 paintings that […]
