“The Pierogi Show,” Pocket Utopia, Bushwick, NY. September 7 – September 30, 2007. Opening: Friday, September 7, 6 – 10pmArtists include: Hilder Asgeirsdottir Jonsson, Clement […]
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Handmade in Baltimore
In the Baltimore Sun, Glenn McNatt sees a return to art-making strategies based on highly labor-intensive, repetitive processes that encourage Zen-like meditation and transcendence: “Not […]
Sunday painters
“Season Three: Plein-Air Painters of Western Pennsylvania,” Watercolors Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Through September 22. As the eagerly anticipated fall gallery openings approach, there may be […]
Whistle-stop tour of Scottish art history
“Beyond Appearances: Painting and Picturing in Scottish Modern and Contemporary Art,” City Art Centre, Edinburgh. Artists include: McTaggart, Fergusson, Johnstone, Eardley, Redpath, Davie, Gear, Paolozzi, […]
Fictional painter’s prose portrait from Doubleday
The Great Man a novel by Kate Christensen, Doubleday: 308 pp., $23.95. In the NYTimes, Janet Maslin reviews this fictional posthumous portrait of a painter: […]
Learning to love abstraction (with footnotes)
�The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006,� at the National Academy Museum, New York, NY. Through February 2008. Benjamin Genocchio […]
Rethinking William Bouguereau
“In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and his American Students,” Frick Art & Historical Center through Oct. 7. Originally curated by the Philbrook Museum […]
The second wave of the Soviet avant-garde
“Nonconformists on Red Square” The Historical Museum, Moscow. Through Sept. 17 Tatyana Gershkovich reports in the Moscow Times: “‘We didn’t drink, we didn’t smoke, we […]
Provincetown pigment
“Eric Aho, Peter Hutchinson, Peik Larsen, Sarah Lutz,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Through Sept. 16. “Tabitha Vevers: Eden,” artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Through Sept. 12. Cate […]
Todd Chilton: accepting imperfection
“Todd Chilton: Recent Paintings,” Raw & Co Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Go to Todd’s website to see images of his paintings. Douglas Max Utter reports in […]
Anyone can paint
Daniel Kilkelly reports on Digital Spy: “Kate Moss has started painting over the past few weeks, as she attempts to get over her split from […]
Fernando Botero Abu Ghraib paintings go to UC Berkeley
Jesse Hamlin reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: “In April, the artist, who lives mostly in Paris, e-mailed Professor Harley Shaiken, director of the Center […]
Richter “happy it wasn�t a failure”
Gerhard Richter’s Cologne Cathedral south transept window, unveiled this week with a special mass. Cologne, Germany. On artnet, Kimberly Bradley reports: “Prior to the unveiling, […]
Scroll story clouds history at SF’s Asian Art Museum
“Telling Tales: Illustrated Storytelling Scrolls,” organized by Forrest McGill. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Through Oct. 21. Peter Schurmann writes on the New America […]
So are they really Jackson Pollocks?
“Pollock Matters,” curated by Ellen Landau. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. September 1-December 9. Geoff Edgers reports in the Boston Globe: […]
Deborah Muirhead’s abstract paintings tell tales of early African-Americans
“Deborah Muirhead: Fly Away,” Purdue University’s Stewart Center Gallery, West Lafayette, IN. Through Oct. 7. Tim Brouk in the Journal & Courier reports: “In 1991, […]
Those who can, teach
“Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries,” curated by John Wilmerding. Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA. Through Sept. 16. […]
Rough around the edges
Kenneth Baker reviews two painting shows in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Jimi Gleason: Vapor and Edge: Paintings,” Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Through Sept. […]
IMHO: Art criticism crit
In maintaining Two Coats of Paint, I’ve read a great many art reviews and noticed a pronounced scarcity of explicit, differential value judgments – i.e., […]
Artists making a difference in the community
Douglas Brown profiles Denver artist Darrell Anderson in the Denver Post: “Anderson did not graduate from an art college. He didn’t spend his youth studying […]
