Contributed by Emil Gombos / Melissa Brown is a painter, printmaker, animator, and performance artist whose practice often centers around �paper ephemera� and the manifestations […]
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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� […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quick study
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 […]
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,” […]
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 […]
