Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / A two-person exhibition involving a couple of clearly kindred artists stands a good chance of being demurely satisfying on account […]
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Punctuation: Derek Bourcier, Robert Medvedz, and Robert Yoder at Planthouse
Without the serial comma � the one inserted before �and� in a list of three or more items � a reader might infer from the […]
Serious drollery at Asya Geisberg
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Summer group shows are notorious for their looseness, but in �Character Traits� Matthew Craven has managed to curate one at […]
June 30: Andrew Ginzel’s list of NYC shows, openings, and events
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / June 30, 2015 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his […]
Blast of color: Mink and Dolnick at OUTLET
“An avalanche of color has no force,” Matisse wrote in 1945. “Color attains its full expression only when it is organized, when it corresponds to […]
And Many More: PAFA presents at 33 Orchard
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / MFA exhibitions are notoriously hit-or-miss, not least because it�s difficult to pull together a group show from graduates who may […]
Joan Nelson: Lost and found
Joan Nelson’s delicate landscape paintings feature images that seem familiar: spindly trees, sparkling waterfalls, vivid blue skies. Indeed, for three decades she has borrowed details […]
Chantal Joffe’s Limbo
Guest Contributor Katelynn Mills / Chantal Joffe�s self-portraits look back at us with a deadpan stare. Often they avoid eye contact altogether. But there�s something […]
A selection from Bushwick Open Studios, 2015
Guest contributor Allison Hale / Both days provided an excellent view into the studio spaces and the community of artists living and working in Bushwick. […]
Jacqueline Humphries and digital distraction
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Digital screens, halftone dot patterns, emoticons, and other typographic symbols comprise the imagery in Jacqueline Humphries’s new series of large-scale […]
Bushwick Open Studios: Outliers
This year Bushwick Open Studios features the usual mega-studio buildings, gallery exhibitions, and an upstart art fair, all worthy of exploration. But some viewers might […]
Quick study: Eric Fischl leaves Mary Boone, Kenny Schachter’s report from the dark side, GeoAb in Peru,Havana, space in DUMBO
According to The Art Newspaper, Eric Fischl, painter and author of a 2013 memoir called Bad Boy, is leaving Mary Boone‘s gallery after thirty years. […]
Bill Jensen: Painting is a prayer
Contributed by Katelynn Mills / One can never hide who they are in their work – I�ve always known and felt that painting is a […]
The new Whitney
On my way to the studio, cruising down the West Side Highway bike path, I always pass the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which […]
Your May Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Roadtrip: Beacon, NY
Beacon is best known in the art community as the home of Dia:Beacon, but there are plenty of other things to do in town. Karlyn […]
Art and Film: Hell and high fashion
By Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Kurt Cobain, the prince of grunge who took his own life in 1994 at age 27, would have disdained […]
On procrastinating: Gwyneth Leech
“Two new directions began to develop as I was winding down a portrait series in 2010. One involved daily drawing and painting on used paper […]
Focus: Melodie Provenzano
Last year Laura Hutson wrote in Nashville Scene that Melodie Provenzano�s playful paintings “land somewhere between Jeff Koons kitsch and Takashi Murakami cute … bridging […]
Web world: The New Museum’s 2015 Triennial
Entering the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial “Surround Audience” is like stepping into someone else�s search history. If you�re passionate about the same information that he […]
