Telegraph art critic, Richard Dorment gives Vladimir Putin a painting crit. “In that special category of world leaders who paint, Putin may not be the Picasso, but at least he’s the Winifred Nicholson. I like the way the yellow window frame and white curtain fill the blue canvas, so that […]
Writing
The Westbeth retirement community
In The Villager, Bonnie Rosenstock writes about the Westbeth, the largest live/work facility for artists in the world, located in the far western edge of Greenwich Village in New York. “The original supposition of Westbeth was that young, starving artists would come here, become successful within five years and leave. […]
“Every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it”
“In the mid-1930s, as her writing career was just starting to take off, Eudora Welty thought she might become a photographer. As a junior publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration, she had traveled around rural Mississippi taking pictures of people coping with the Depression. In letters and while visiting […]
Art criticism: Alive and well
Village Voice critic Martha Schwendener, in a good piece on the state of art writing and criticism, suggests that, despite the bad economy, things are pretty good right now. “The big narrative in the art world over the last decade has been the market. Money, as you may have heard, […]
The Limner
This week, The New Yorker’s short story, “The Limner” by Julian Barnes, is about an itinerant painter. Here’s an excerpt. “Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative from the beginning: about the fee�twelve dollars�the size of the canvas, and the prospect to be shown through the window. Fortunately, there had been swift […]
