Sal Scalora, former Director of UConn�s Benton Museum, and Janice LaMotta, owner of LaMotta Fine Art and former owner of Paesaggio Fine Art, have curated […]
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NY TImes Art in Review: Larissa Bates
In the NY Times, Karen Rosenberg wonders why Larissa Bates, whose small ink-and-gouache paintings are guys-only versions of Darger�s impish, militant Vivian Girls, wasn’t included […]
Peter McDonald wins John Moores Painting Prize
Peter McDonald’s painting depicting an artist slashing a canvas has won this year’s John Moores contemporary painting prize. “Fontana,” by the Tokyo-born McDonald, reimagines the […]
John O’Connor: Recording small events, missteps, and changes of direction over time
In The Village Voice RC Baker reports that John O’Connor uses ‘haphazard research’ and personal obsession (body weight, lottery numbers, weather reports) as inspiration for […]
In Harms’ way
Old painting pal Sadko Hadzihasanovic and I once decided that a painter can have good paint-handling and bad drawing, or good drawing and bad paint-handling, […]
Amy Wilson: Open book
Unlike contemporary text artists such as Laurence Weiner and his followers, the prolific Amy Wilson is more interested in the narrative use of language than […]
Morandi: “I don’t ask for anything except for a bit of peace which is indispensable for me to work.”
The big Giorgio Morandi survey that opens this week at the Metropolitan Museum features over 100 paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings. In the New Yorker […]
Ashbery and Naves: Completing the circle
This month well respected art critics Mario Naves and John Ashbery both present their collages in New York. In the NY Sun, David Cohen covers […]
The meaning of making
In a recent NY Times art review, Roberta Smith lamented the fact that the current crop of artists seems to have opted out of skill-building […]
Nicole Eisenman in Berlin
In ArtForum, Nicole Eisenman talks to Brian Sholis about her new work. “During the past fifteen years,” Sholis writes, “New York-based Eisenman has created a […]
Christopher Ulivo: Armchair adventurer
Christopher Ulivo’s show, recommended as Best in Painting by Time Out, opens this week at Susan Inglett. According to the gallery’s press release, Ulivo’s conceit […]
Sue Williams’s linemaking logic
In the Village Voice Michael Spies writes about his visit to Sue Williams’s Montauk studio where they discussed work for her show, opening today, at […]
Find stolen paintings, collect $200,000
An Encino art collection that included works by Marc Chagall, Hans Hofmann, Chaim Soutine, Arshile Gorky, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, and Kess van […]
7 painters tell us their secrets
Next week the 25th winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, the UK�s largest contemporary painting competition with a first prize of �25,000 and total […]
Studio Update: So long, little shack
When I recently vacated my summer studio shack at Habitat For Artists, Simon Draper, creator/curator of the unusual HFA residency project in Beacon, NY, asked […]
Elizabeth Peyton: Part of the lifestyle
Publisher’s Weekly’s Charles Dee Mitchell takes a look at recent and upcoming lists from publishers and sees several shared approaches toward producing and distributing books […]
Sarah Walker: Layer upon layer upon layer
In the press release, Sarah Walker claims to use painting “as a tool for perceptual recalibration that enables viewers to detect and intuit disparate spatial […]
Rouault’s comedy of errors
The current exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art reveals Georges Rouault’s keen sense of disjunction, unintended consequences, and ironic reversals. This irony (a sometimes […]
Ary Stillman: Rewriting art history on his behalf
In the Jewish Herald-Voice, Aaron Howard declares that history is harsh to painters. “In certain periods of art history, a few celebrity painters get the […]
MoMA hires Ann Temkin as Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture
In the NYTimes, Carol Vogel reports that the Museum of Modern Art has chosen one of its own curators, Ann Temkin, to succeed John Elderfield, […]
