This week: Summer reading, teaching update (Parsons in the fall), Trump art, gallery closings, Picabia retrospective, and a visit to Cape Cod… Trump the muse […]
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Neighbors: Marci MacGuffie @ 55 Washington
For artists who spend long hours working alone in the studio, the conversations that take place in the hallway with other artists are crucial. For […]
Collaboration: Archie Rand and Bill Berkson
Before poet and art critic Bill Berkson died earlier this month, he had been collaborating with artist Archie Rand on a re-working of “Room Tone,” […]
Men curating women
Last week “The Female Gaze, Part 2: Women Look At Men,” an exhibition that includes many rich and inventive paintings, opened at Cheim and Read. […]
Studio visit with Greg Drasler
Visiting an artist’s studio before a new body of work is packed and shipped off for a solo show can be a stirring experience. The […]
Street Smarts: Charles Goldman @ Songs For Presidents
Guest Contributor Mary Addison Hackett / I went to graduate school in Chicago with Charles Goldman and still remember one of the first pieces he […]
Nicole Eisenman and the triumph of painting
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Just about every piece in Nicole Eisenman�s nobly minatory exhibition �Al-ugh-ories� at the New Museum, up through June 26, pulses […]
Quick study
This week: Coney Art Walls, job postings, Art Basel report, painterly photographs, residency news from Sharpe Walentas and the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program (residents announced […]
Chicago: Adam Scott at Julius Caesar
Contributed by Robin Dluzen / Adam Scott�s latest exhibition, “Silent Running” at Julius Caesar in Chicago, is a kind of Helen-Frankenthaler-color-field-painting-meets-Gram-Parsons-desert-pilgrimage experience. The works are […]
Rethinking Howard Hodgkin
For decades, Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932, London) has been known for turning his memories and experiences into brushy, colorful paintings on old wooden panels. He […]
Art and Film: Eva Hesse�s enduring disruption
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Eva Hesse, as portrayed in Marcie Begleiter�s superlatively penetrating Eva Hesse, sadly but exquisitely zoned in on mortality as the […]
Picks: Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios
Two years ago the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program joined forces with the Walentas Family Foundation, the philanthropic element of Two Trees Management Company […]
Trudy Benson: Cheerfully kinetic, but…
In her solo show at Half Gallery, Trudy Benson presents easel-size paintings that continue her riff on the digital imagery of early paint software like […]
Quick study
Links to Nicole Eisenman’s shows, Morley Safer’s paintings, reviews of recent abstraction shows, a writing competition, and the paintings being called “anti-Catholic” in Virginia –> […]
“Bill and Ted” at Freddy (new location)
The formerly mysterious Baltimore gallery Freddy has relocated to an old church in Harris, New York, a small town between Liberty and Monticello of Route […]






























