Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (894-2),” 2005, oil on aludibond, 11 3/4 x 17 3/8″ In Time Out New York this week Howard Halle begins his […]
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Artist’s Statement of the Day: Allison Gildersleeve
Allison Gildersleeve, “Flying at Knee Level,” 2009, oil and alkyd on canvas, 46 x 44.” Images courtesy the artist and Michael Steinberg Fine Art. Allison […]
Robert Storr on the talk circuit: Grueling
Robert Storr drinking champagne at The American University of Paris. Photo: Susie Hollands (www.ivyparis.com), courtesy The Artblog In a report on the “trials and tribulations […]
Butler gets a Jackson Pollock valued at 2 million
Jackson Pollock, “Silver and Black,” 1950, oil and metallic paint, 21.25 x 15.75.” The Business Journal Daily reports that a painting by Jackson Pollock, valued […]
Miami mania
One of my dogs enjoying the pile of trash handouts I gathered at the fairs in Miami. At the Miami Fairs, since my only assignment […]
NY Times Art in Review: Eric Fischl, Richard Hawkins
Eric Fischl at Mary Boone, installation view. “ERIC FISCHL: Corrida in Ronda,” Mary Boone, Chelsea. Through December 19. Karen Rosenberg: For centuries, bullfights have been […]
Marjorie Welish and James Siena: Doing and undoing
Oaths? Questions? First spread of a collaborative book by Marjorie Welish and James Siena. Oaths? Questions? Second spread. Oaths? Questions? Third spread. […]
The continued under-valuation of art bloggers
Last year we all cheered when New York’s Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, which “aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art,” included […]
Art for Darwinian times
Matthew Miller, “Untitled (Self-Portrait), 2009. Detail. In the latest edition of The Brooklyn Rail I reviewed “Social Curiosities,” a show at the New York Academy […]
“I�m not an original thinker, but I think I�m an original painter.”
Sylvia Plimack Mangold, “Summer Maple,” 2008, drypoint and aquatint on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 in Sylvia Plimack Mangold, “Maple Tree Detail 2008,” 2008, oil […]
NY Times Art in Review: Fischer, Halvorson, Santore
Dan Fischer,”Mondrian Studio II,” 2008, graphite on paper, 2.125 x 9.625.” DAN FISCHER: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” Derek Eller Gallery, Chelsea. Through Dec. […]
18 painters selected for 2010 Whitney Biennial
According to Carol Vogel in the NY Times, the 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial will not only try to chronicle current goings-on in contemporary […]
Returns Department
Thanks Princeton Architectural Press, for sending a copy of Joe Fig’s new book, Inside the Painter’s Studio. Throughout the blogosphere artists and critics are raving […]
Slack Tide: William Lamson at Artspace
Stills from Lamson’s performance video of “Play/Pause.” This week in the New Haven Advocate, I review Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson’s Artspace exhibition Time Is […]
Book excerpt: A PAINTER’S LIFE by K.B. Dixon
UPDATE (May 11, 2010): Dixon’s book has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Book Award for independent publishing. According to their […]
