Luc Tuymans will be signing copies of his new book, published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition on view now at the Wexner Center in […]
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Meredyth Sparks sampling constructivism
Meredyth Sparks at Gallerie Frank Elbaz, installation view. Meredyth Sparks, “Extraction,” 2009, digital scan, foil, glitter, digital print, 43.25″44.75″ Lillian Davies reports in ArtForum that […]
Painting a new path at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific
Ninety-seven-year-old Oshino Okuda (pictured above) regularly attends painting classes at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Although her late husband was an artist, she was […]
Tom Benson: The temporal and political potential of looking
Tom Benson at Larry Becker, installation view of front room – from right:Scarlet, Counter, Apt, and Script. “My work lays emphasis on the temporal and […]
Albert York is dead
Albert York, “Reclining Female Nude with Cat,” 1978, oil on wood, 9.4 x 12.5″ Courtesy Davis & Langdale Gallery. Albert York, “Red Roses in Glass […]
Baton Rouge painters accused of forgery…again
Clementine Hunter at home near Natchitoches, Louisiana � 1974-Christopher R. Harris, All Rights Reserved Michael Kunzelman reports at AP that a pair of Baton Rouge […]
My first article in the New Haven Advocate: Philip Pearlstein
Recently I was contacted by John Stoehr, the new editor at the New Haven Advocate, one of Connecticut’s alt weekies, to write about Connecticut arts. […]
Profile: Tim Doud
Tim Doud, “Materiality,” installation view at PriskaC. Juschka in 2007. Tim Doud, “None of My Clothes,”2006-07, oil on linen, 30 x 22” Anne Bentzel […]
A kind of yoga of learning, looking, focusing, doing, redoing, humbly, pridefully, hourly, daily
Arshile Gorky, “The Liver is the Cock’s Comb,” 1944. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Holland Cotter saw the Arshile Gorky show in […]
Up for adoption
I recently joined the Fine Art Adoption Network, one of Adam Simon’s ongoing experiments to develop alternative strategies for art distribution. Today I put these […]
Elizabeth Gourlay’s simple means
Elizabeth Gourlay, “Portolano 2.” Images from a studio visit with Elizabeth Gourlay in August, 2009. My quiet Connecticut neighbor, Elizabeth Gourlay, paints allegories. […]
Robin Mitchell: Where ordinary language is difficult
Robing Mitchell, “RM 08 10,” 2008, gouache on paper, 24 x 18″ Robin Mitchell is having her second solo show at Craig Krull Gallery in […]
Abby Leigh: Shut your eyes
Abby Leigh, “Focus 2,” 2009, 50 x 50″ dry pigment, oil, wax on canvas. Wandering around Chelsea yesterday, I stopped in to see Abby Leigh’s […]
Think tank forming at Exit Art tonight
Through November 8, artists Daniel Lichtman and David Baumflek will host The Institute for Aesthetic Research (IAR) – a program of public events, talks and […]
Are contemporary conceptual projects doomed to be misunderstood historical curiosities?
Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of The Art Instinct: Beauty, […]
