Contributed by Sharon Butler / In my littleattic workroom, progress continues on a series of small paintings I started this past summer in Beacon, NY. […]
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Last chance: Dawn Black at Curator’s Office in DC
Curator’s Office, a tiny corner space in one of DC’s few gallery buildings, has one more day with Dawn Black‘s mysterious and delicately painted watercolor, […]
Picassify it
In the NY Times Carol Vogel wonders what Picasso was thinking during the final years of his life, when he was living in Notre-Dame-de-Vie on […]
The nature of space: Reading list
Rhizome Contributing Editor Marisa Olson has put together a basic reading list that will interest anyone exploring experimental geography. In recent years, access to geographical […]
Ian Whitmore and Graham Caldwell: DC artists move to NYC
Ian Whitmore, who, according to Washington Post’s Blake Gopnik, is one of DC’s most promising young painters, has recently moved to Brooklyn. “In NYC, he […]
Two Coats’ movie pick: Adventureland
Director Greg Mottola (Daytrippers and Superbad) has been called the new John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, etc.), but Mottola’s […]
Upcoming shows: Inside and out
“HOME,” Westport Arts Center Main Gallery April 3 � June 1, 2009Westport Arts Center�s exhibition HOME, curated by Eric Aho, features paintings and drawings that […]
Guston: Laugh out loud?
On Spring Break this week, I’ve been invited down to DC for a day or two where, besides staying in a swanky Jetson-style hotel, I’m […]
April Gornik: Painting has an “undeniable gravitas”
In qi peng‘s Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner interview with April Gornik, qi asks Gornik, who had a solo show at Danese in November […]
Some old gold: 2006 interview with Howard Hodgkin
Thanks Jen Mazza for posting this link to novelist Colm T�ib�n’s 2006 Guardian interview with Howard Hodgkin. Apparently Hodgkin dislikes talking about his paintings and […]
Thornton Willis: Stripped down guts and lived wisdom
Blogger/artist Steven Alexander reports that, “anyone who is a lover of painting will inevitably feel a rush of recognition — that increasingly rare sense of […]
R.C. Baker’s fictive, painterly narratives at Zone
In April, Village Voice art critic R.C. Baker has a show at Zone:Contemporary Art (formerly Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts) that combines art, fiction, […]
NY Times Art in Review: Leon Kossoff and Xylor Jane
“Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years, 1957-1967, “Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 28. Roberta Smith reports: This show is an informative treat. […]
Art blogs on Kindle
Are you familiar with Amazon’s electronic book called the Kindle? I want one. The online Kindle Store, accessible through the Kindle itself, features a couple […]
Bouncing blogger Regina Hackett
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Regina Hackett, the longtime art critic at the Seattle P-I, which recently laid off all but twenty staffers and ceased […]
Superabundant: Pattern power in UK
This is the final week for “Superabundant,” an exhibition at Turner Contemporary Project Space that declares itself a celebration of pattern power. Artists Jacob Dahlgren, […]
Joan Snyder: Fleshy physicality and broken-bones impact
In the LA Times art blog David Pagel reports that the six paintings and four prints in Snyder�s L.A. solo debut at SolwayJones Gallery are […]
Serban Savu: Ruins of a recent future
David Nolan features work by Serban Savu this month. Savu, part of a group of artists from Cluj, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, […]
Charlie Finch on Kathleen Gilje’s 96 breasts
“I stopped by Francis Naumann’s 57th Street gallery last week to watch Kathleen Gilje install her altered series of 48 female portraits by John Singer […]
Shelly Adler’s romantic loneliness in Toronto
After spending the afternoon hosting a birthday party for a ten-year-old in a freezing ice rink, Canadian art seems appropriate, so here’s a piece about […]
