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 […]
Hacked
Clive Owen and George Clooney in forgers’ tale
Vanessa Thorpe reports in The Observer: “The extraordinary story of how British forgers John Myatt and John Drewe joined together to con art experts and […]
Jeff Koons on feeling good
In Graeme Green’s sixty second Metro interview with Jeff Koons, Koons declares “I like to make people feel good about themselves and connected with themselves, […]
SAM slam
Lee Rosenbaum Lee Rosenbaum reports today in the Wall Street Journal: “Most museums expand to make room for their existing permanent collections. The Seattle Art […]
“Lines, Grids, Stains, Words” at MOMA
Sarah Schmerler in The Village Voice: “This smart little offering of Minimalist drawings is curated by Christian Rattemeyer (late of Artists Space). He’s scarcely been […]
Critics weigh in on Stella Vine’s show at Modern Art Oxford
In the Telegraph, Richard Dorment reports a change of heart about Stella Vine’s paintings: “Imagine my amazement to discover that there is something to Vine’s […]
At Boston’s Allston Skirt Gallery: a small, dark, and stinky slice of the art-world pie
In The Phoenix Sharon Steel writes about “Pull My Finger,� a new group show at the Allston Skirt Gallery, curated by artist Joe Zane: �Artists? […]
Paintings in the National Gallery: national heritage, art-historical legacy or status symbols?
Chris Bryant reports in The Times: �The news that seven major artworks on loan to the National Gallery, London, might be sold and may leave […]
Georges de La Tour�s long forgotten nocturnes exhibited in UK
Laura Cumming in The Guardian: �It scarcely seems possible that there could be any old masters left to rediscover, yet so it is with the […]
At the Boston MFA artists grapple with war
Ken Johnson writes in The Boston Globe: �As the war in Iraq grinds on toward no very clear end, collective reaction to it by contemporary […]
Churches draw on the spiritual inspiration of contemporary artists
Valerie Gladstone points out in the NYTimes Travel section: “As a wave of contemporary art installations is being unveiled in cathedrals, churches and chapels across […]
Karen Kilimnik’s Philadelphia salon
Dorothy Spears in the NYTimes: “When Robert Wuilfe, curator of Landmarks Contemporary Projects in Philadelphia, learned of Karen Kilimnik’s interest in creating a site-specific installation […]
Mass-produced paintings at Urban Outfitters for $39.99
Cassandra Neyenesch in The Brooklyn Rail: “Mass-produced canvases for sale at Urban Outfitters, though of course decorative, offer a pointed commentary about the way art […]
Venice Biennale: serious and smart
Kim Levin in The Brooklyn Rail: “So many skulls, tibia, ribcages, soldiers in uniform, mortally wounded dolls, and flocks of birds morphing into missiles or […]
Painter Tony Shore awarded Baltimore’s $25,000 Sondheim Prize
Baltimore Sun art critic Glenn McNatt reports that Tony Shore, whose portraits of family and friends painted on black velvet capture the poignant and gritty […]
Torture survivor depicts Khmer Rouge’s murderous legacy
Sopheng Cheang in The Irrawaddy: “The Khmer Rouge’s murderous legacy has been depicted in art by a survivor of an infamous torture center run by […]
NYTimes Friday art reviews
Milton Avery watercolors and Sarah Peters drawings are reviewed in the NYTimes today. Roberta Smith on Sarah Peters: �In her first solo show, Sarah Peters […]
Denver hosts first exhibition from the Clyfford Still estate
Kyle MacMillan in The Denver Post reports: �Denver was chosen in 2004 as the repository for the Clyfford Still estate and future home of a […]
Pre-digital perspective
Roderick Conway Morris writes in the International Herald Tribune: �For most of his career Piero della Francesca pursued painting and mathematics with equal success. In […]
Watching Nightwatch
Nightwatching, a Peter Greenaway film that explores the circumstances around Rembrandt’s creation of his famed painting The Nightwatch, will join the lineup at the Toronto […]
