Lucian Freud’s Ria, Naked Portrait 2007, Tate Modern, London. From October 5. Ria Kirby modeled for Lucian Freud, and Martin Gayford watched the work as […]
Museum Exhibitions
Earl Cunningham’s imaginary landscapes
“Earl Cunningham’s America,” curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Through Nov. 4. In the Washington Post, Blake Gopnik reports: “Outsider art […]
Rembrandt and pals stir unlikely controversy in Gotham
The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by Walter Liedtke, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Paintings. […]
Latin American abstraction, 1930s-1970s
“The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” organized by Gabriel P�rez-Barreiro, curator of Latin American art at […]
The second wave of the Soviet avant-garde
“Nonconformists on Red Square” The Historical Museum, Moscow. Through Sept. 17 Tatyana Gershkovich reports in the Moscow Times: “‘We didn’t drink, we didn’t smoke, we […]
Eric Fischl: Face time in the Hamptons
In the NYTimes, Martha Schwendener reports: “The show at the Parrish, ‘All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy,’ stems from discussions between Mr. […]
Guggenheim’s Pousette-Dart show draws reviews
“Richard Pousette-Dart,” curated by Philip Rylands with Luca Massimo Barbero. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. August 17- Sept. 25. Exhibition travels to […]
Donald and Doris Fisher propose new SF museum for their collection of contemporary art
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker reports: “San Francisco’s stature as a cultural destination and hub of new art scholarship will jump dramatically if […]
Last chance to see “Colorfield Remix” in DC
CBSnews.com reported: “A city-wide celebration called “Colorfield Remix” features some 30 different exhibits honoring the homegrown Washington Color School. The Washington Color School was in […]
Harwood Museum presents Diebenkorn’s work from grad school
Kyle MacMillan reports in the Denver Post: “With a painting from Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park” series in almost every major art museum in the country, […]
Hudson River School painters at the New-York Historical Society
Martha Schwendener in the NYTimes: “Ah, summer. Time to venture into the great American outdoors — or at least consider the concept by paying a […]
Neil Jenney resurfaces at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
In the NYTimes, Grace Glueck reports: “Whoa! Could this be the work of Neil Jenney, a star of the 1970s Neo-Expressionist movement, who first intrigued […]
Ada and Alex Katz donate paintings from their collection to Colby College Museum of Art
David Cohen reports in The New York Sun: “In 2004, Alex Katz, who turns 80 next week, launched a foundation to collect contemporary art. This […]
At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain of contemporary visual language
Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly: “One of the most pronounced symptoms of the wide-scale institutionalization of artistic practice has been the rise of curatorial […]
Ann Philbin at the Hammer Museum collects paper
According to Jori Finkel in the NY Times, “When Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and Chief Curator Gary Garrels started building a collection, […]
The dirtiness of desire
In The Guardian, Jonathan Jones scrutinizes the Lucas Cranach exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London: “Lucas Cranach was not the first artist […]
Anselm Keifer thinks big
Alan Riding looks at the artist chosen for the innaugural solo show at the Grand Palais in Paris. “Since moving to France in 1993, this […]
Turner Prize shortlist: painters given the brush-off
After awarding Turner Prize to abstract painter Tomma Abts last year, not a single painter makes the 2007 shortlist .
Op Art is back…again.
David Rimanelli writes in the May issue of Art Forum that Op Art, the subject of two big museum shows, is back. After seeing the […]
