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March 20: Andrew Ginzel’s list of NYC shows and events
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / March 20, 2014 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his […]
ON FILM: Wes Anderson’s big picture
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Art — especially painting — is an honored cinematic metaphor for culture, particularly as a symbol of civilization under siege. […]
Heads and tails: The figure @ Volta
At Volta, the small art fair affiliated with the much larger annual Armory Show, galleries presented a curated exhibition featuring a single artist. I saw […]
These threads are queer
Guest Contributor Clarity Haynes / The wall text at the portal to the exhibition “Queer Threads,” currently at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in Manhattan, bluntly states, �Is this work �gay?� You bet.� The show, with its confluence of queer and feminist sensibilities, is the perfect subversive, fuzzy, neon, rainbow, glittery storm. Transgression has never felt so friendly.
Loren Munk’s world view
We are all in the process of spinning invisible webs, tied together by geography, ideas, cyber connections, and imagery. In “You Are Here,” Loren Munk […]
March 4: Andrew Ginzel’s list of NYC shows and events
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / February 15, 2014 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his […]
2014 Whitney Biennial: Curators’ statements, painting links
I’m looking forward to the opening of the Whitney Biennial this week because the selection includes a surprising number of painters, including a […]
Good news: “Some of this work is quite good”
“Right now the ‘consensus’ is that serious art involves raw canvas, a smattering of paint, possibly an exposed stretcher bar, and a ‘who the fuck […]
Speaking Deborah Brown’s language
For several years, Deborah Brown translated the world around her Bushwick studio into paint. Celebrating the neighborhood’s metal scaffolding, makeshift welded architecture, abandoned cars, fenced […]
25 hours in New York: Jenny Zoe Casey
Guest contributor Jenny Zoe Casey (Orlando, FL) / Art critic Jerry Salz says that “vampires need to be with vampires.” With this vivid advice in […]
Quick Study: Enough already, what’s next, a new painting blog and more
Who knew painting (and art writing) still had the power to evoke such outrage? Some artists and writers, unhappy with the provisional and casualist approach […]
The Casualist tendency
This essay, which builds upon an essay about contemporary abstract painting that I wrote for The Brooklyn Rail in 2011, was just published in the […]
Dustin Hodges: Rational bluff
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show, at Miguel Abreu, 2012 Bard MFA grad Dustin Hodges presents a series of compelling architectural […]
Architecture as muse at Union College
If readers are up near Union College in Schenectady, NY, please check out “blueprint,” a three person exhibition in The Atrium Gallery curated by Brece […]
