�The first thing is to be quiet. I drop my agenda or expectations, and listen. Then I soften my gaze. The eyes are aggressive, and […]
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Vancouver Report: Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery
Guest Contributor Dion Kliner (Vancouver, BC) / John Singer Sargent enigmatically said, “A portrait is a painting with a little something wrong about the mouth.” […]
Young painters in the secondary market: “Chewed up and spit out”
Last week Ed Winkleman brought to my attention an article by Bloomberg arts reporter Katya Kazakina who suggested that a new breed of speculator […]
Halvorson and Hawkins: Two kinds of cool
One kind of cool is no-nonsense virtuoso paint-handling that calmly vivifies the world as it slowly turns, of the kind on display in […]
EMAIL: Judith Braun’s fingertips propel Kelly Clark to snowboarding bronze
Judith Braun writes this morning: OK, so all I did was design the snowboard that KELLY CLARK won her OLYMPIC BRONZE on! …but I am […]
Last chance: Ingrid Calame’s elegy to old America
In an increasingly digital and virtual time, Ingrid Calame�s utilization of a centuries-old technique to celebrate tar, pavement, rubber, steel, and high-octane gasoline is like […]
Smart Painting in New Haven
The ten artists in “Smart Painting,” an upcoming exhibition at New Haven’s Artspace Gallery, are an inquisitive group, asking a range of questions, which, at […]
Sue Williams�s Subterfuge
Without the prompting of her 303 Gallery show�s title � �WTC, WWIII, Couch Size� � few viewers would apprehend Sue Williams�s richly evocative new color […]
Portfolio: David Ostrowski (It’s about something. It’s about nothing.)
For “Yes or Let’s Say No,” David Ostrowski’s recent solo show at Simon Lee in London, curator Elena Brugnano wrote the following statement in which […]
ON FILM: Blonde on blondes
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In the watching, video artist Shannon Plumb’s debut feature Towheads, which MoMA screened last week and has wisely purchased […]
Sarah Faux : Report from Yale
Guest Contributor Sarah Faux just completed her first semester in the Yale MFA program. She writes about the changes in her work and the diversity […]
SURVEY: Bleaching, staining, and dyeing
Matthew J. Mahler, B T W #1[by the way], 2013, acrylic and dye on canvas, 36 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Sardine. In fall 2012, […]
Resolution and dissolution at once: Angelina Gualdoni at Asya Geisberg
But Mr. Cotter, most painters paint because they love painting
A couple days ago in the NYTimes, Holland Cotter, extremely agitated by the sorry state of the art world, ranted about the detrimental effect big […]
ON FILM: Tornatore�s creepy art auctioneer in The Best Offer
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) admiring his secret collection of ladies in Giuseppe Tornatore�s The Best Offer. Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In Giuseppe Tornatore�s The […]
