From the Whitney’s website: Around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to make a painting that had no recognizable images in it. He […]
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IMAGES: Matthew Mahler
Matthew Mahler, O M G #2 [oh my god], 2013, acrylic and dye on canvas, 40 x 44 inches. CMU. Matthew Mahler has been dyeing […]
Fall 2013: Advice for students
Always a good strategy, right? Maybe, but sometimes it’s better not to worry about quality–just keep working. No hand-wringing allowed…! Originally posted on They Draw […]
Secondary usage: Four questions and answers
I recently received an email from artist and curator Brendan Carroll with the following four questions, and since I spent a fair amount of time […]
Peter Dudek: Challenging murals in North Adams
NYC artist Peter Dudek‘s recent undertaking, “House Dreaming (and then some),” is a mural project that includes several related images of architectural structures displayed around […]
EMAIL: Matthew Fisher responds to Adolph Gottleib
Hello Sharon, I hope this summer finds you in good spirits and of course in the studio. I was tickled to read your post on […]
A Day for Detroit: Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (b. 1858, Germany), The Art Student (Herbert Schonbohm), 1923, graphite pencil on wove paper,18 x 13 1/4 inches. A German Impressionist, Corinth was […]
A Day for Detroit: Tyree Guyton in the Detroit Institute of Art collection
Tyree Guyton, Untitled, late 20th century, 43 x 25 x 5 inches. Detroit Instutute of Art, Gift of Cristina A. and Dirk S. Denison in […]
A Day For Detroit: Economist calls selling the DIA collection “complete foolishness”
Thanks to Tyler Green‘s vision and organization, a slew of art bloggers are posting about the Detroit art community today in an effort to halt […]
A few snaps: Adolph Gottlieb
Longtime readers may recall my evolving ideas about the paIntings of Ab-Exer Adolph Gottlieb (b. 1903, New York City), and this summer there’s another opportunity to […]
Matthew Miller: One Painting’s Presence
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Some paintings have to be seen in person, up close, and without distraction to be fully appreciated. That is […]
Artist-in-Residence: Bascom Lodge at the summit of Mount Greylock
For the next two weeks I’ll be the Artist-in-Residence at the Bascom Lodge, a beautiful Arts & Crafts style lodge on the summit of Mount […]
Forming questions: James Hyde
On a trip to a few Bushwick galleries last weekend, I was drawn to a couple of small pieces by James Hyde in “Solid Pull,” […]
Retro book review: NYC art scene in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
At the thriftshop recently, I picked up a hardcover edition of Anthony Haden-Guest’s True Colors, The Real Life of the Art World for two bucks. […]
Upcoming show: Dense Surveillance
Good news: I just got the brochure proofs for “Dense Surveillance,” my upcoming solo show at Westchester Community College. The space at WCC is roomy–the […]
