YES: Galleries are presenting a slew of good painting exhibitions this season. The most obvious trend seems to be the continued move away from abstraction […]
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Interview: Melissa Brown’s currency
Contributed by Emil Gombos / Melissa Brown is a painter, printmaker, animator, and performance artist whose practice often centers around �paper ephemera� and the manifestations […]
Interview: Amie Cunat at Wave Hill
Contributed by Danni Shen / In her most recent solo exhibition at Wave Hill, New York-based painter Amie Cunat has created a floor-to-ceiling installation, and […]
Art and Film: Ira Sachs on art and growing up
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Ira Sachs makes sensitive movies about contemporary urban life that are distinguished by their grand refusal to present stock characters […]
Margot Bergman: The truer face
Contributed by Will Fenstermaker / The vultus, a Latin word that has no equivalent in Indo-European languages or ancient Greek, is the face that lies […]
Stuart Davis: The last painting
Stuart Davis, whose uneven but exhilarating retrospective is on view at the Whitney through September 25, is known for his playful fusion of advertising typography, […]
Interview: Timothy Nolan and his public art project at LAX
If you find yourself in Terminal 7 at the Los Angeles International Airport, you can’t miss Timothy Nolan’s new public art project, a series of� […]
Invitations: Outlet Fine Art, Theodore:Art, Galerie Jean Fournier, Lesley Heller
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
