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Joan Snyder receives MacArthur genius award
The MacArthur Foundation profile of Joan Snyder declares that her paintings “mirror her personal experience, but, at the same time, the visual messages she provides […]
“My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures” on the big screen in Manhattan
“My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures,” directed by Johnny Boston. Director of photography, Jarred Alterman; edited by Todd Drezner; music by Adam Balazs; […]
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year: painter Adam Grossi
“Adam Grossi: Dimensions for Vanishing Points,”, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2007 Emerging Artist of the Year recipient. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,. Pittsburgh, […]
Checking in on motel art
“Bridge Motel,” Fremont, WA. One night only.“50,000 Beds,” throughout Connecticut. Through Sept. 23. The projects in the “Bridge Motel” let’s-have-a-show-before-the-developers-knock-down-the-building extravaganza were primarily oriented toward […]
Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite collection returns to Delaware
“The Return of the Pre-Raphaelites,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. On permanent display. Christopher Yasiejko reports in the News Journal how the Bancroft Collection of […]
Squares in Chicago
Joanne Mattera’s blog features a photographic roundup of the abstract painting she saw while on whirlwind tour of Chicago galleries. Don’t miss Part II .Featured […]
The Bard’s Self-Appointed Flack
“Marketing Shakespeare: The Boydell Gallery (1789-1805) and Beyond,” curated by Ann Hawkins and Georgianna Ziegler. The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. Through Jan. 5, 2008. […]
Ab-Ex at the Met
“Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” selected and installed by Gary Tinterow. The […]
Modeling for Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s Ria, Naked Portrait 2007, Tate Modern, London. From October 5. Ria Kirby modeled for Lucian Freud, and Martin Gayford watched the work as […]
Earl Cunningham’s imaginary landscapes
“Earl Cunningham’s America,” curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Through Nov. 4. In the Washington Post, Blake Gopnik reports: “Outsider art […]
Larry Poons exuberance
“Larry Poons,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Through Oct. 1o. Jonathan Jones in The Guardian reports: “There’s life and exuberance here that younger painters, who are […]
The Drawing Center’s Fall Selections
“Non-Declarative Art: Selections Fall 2007,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Through Oct. 18. Artists include Susan Goethel Campbell, Gianna Commito, Michael Diaz, Jeff Feld, […]
Young stunt
“Aaron Young: Greeting Card,” Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY. Through Sept. 23. In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith reports:”If there was any doubt that we […]
Hopper show arrives in DC
“Edward Hopper,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Through Jan. 21, 2008. Schedule: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 6�August 19, 2007; National Gallery of […]
Xavier Tricot, Ensor scholar, cuts to the bone
“I Am As You Will Be:�The Skeleton in Art,”curated in part by James Ensor scholar Xavier Tricot. Cheim & Read, New York, NY. Through November […]
A Peter Schjeldahl stop and chat
Christian Viveros-Faun� chats with The New Yorker’s art critic Peter Schjeldahl. “The only national chronicler of the expanding circus of art, Schjeldahl has spent four […]
Doom, gloom, Hume
“Gary Hume: American Tan,” White Cube Mason�s Yard, London. Through Oct. 7. In The Guardian, Jonathan Jones pummels Hume’s latest exhibition at White Cube. “All […]
Georg Baselitz retrospective at the Royal Academy
“Georg Baselitz,” Royal Academy of Arts, London. Through Dec. 9. In The Guardian, Adrian Searle reviews the Georg Baselitz retrospective at the Royal Academy: “For […]
Rembrandt and pals stir unlikely controversy in Gotham
The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by Walter Liedtke, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Paintings. […]
