Greg Cook reports in The Phoenix: “Boston art can often seem constipated. This is an academic, institutional city…Somerville, though, has become a bastion for the […]
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The Provincetown beat
Provincetown, MA, unlike most tourist hotspots, has a serious gallery scene. Exhibitions, crammed full of paintings, change every two weeks. Openings are on Friday nights.Current […]
The branding of Mona Lisa: a lesson for young artists
Mary Blume reports in the International Herald Tribune: “If, as Andr� Malraux said, museums do not simply exhibit masterpieces but create them, Sassoon adds that […]
Hirst buys Insects
Colin Gleadel reports in the Telegraph’s Market News: “Last week Damien Hirst bought an entire exhibition before it had even opened. Clearly flush from his […]
An Iraqi artist’s response to an unfathomable reality
Maymanah Farhat reports on electroniciraq.net: “The fundamental nature and creative force that has propelled the evolution of Iraqi art is what curator Ulrike al-Khamis has […]
Hearts, Minds, and Abstract Expressionism
For more on the relationship between government funding and international art collaborations between institutions, check out “Arts and Minds,” an article I wrote for the […]
Personal Jesus: worshiping Warhol and Haring together
Kurt Shaw reports in the Pittsbrugh Tribune-Review: ” There is a kind of poetic logic in the fact that Warhol and Haring created religiously inspired […]
Looking at the Serra show from a painter’s perspective
Blogger Joanne Mattera writes: “The mottled and scratched surface texture, always interesting, reveals itself in daylight to be something more like skin: thick here, thin […]
Last chance to see “Colorfield Remix” in DC
CBSnews.com reported: “A city-wide celebration called “Colorfield Remix” features some 30 different exhibits honoring the homegrown Washington Color School. The Washington Color School was in […]
“My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures” premieres at the NY International Independent Film Festival
“After nearly six years of production, director/producer Johnny Boston has completed his feature length documentary titled, ‘My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures,’ a […]
Harwood Museum presents Diebenkorn’s work from grad school
Kyle MacMillan reports in the Denver Post: “With a painting from Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park” series in almost every major art museum in the country, […]
Claude Monet’s unknown drawings and sketches at the Clark Art Institute
Ken Johnson in the Boston Globe: “For Monet, the drawing problem was twofold. Practically, his drawing skills were not up to academic standards. And he […]
iona rozeal brown and Clare Woods in Los Angeles
In LA Times’ “Around the Galleries’ column Holly Myers recommends Brown at Sandroni Rey Gallery and Clare Woods at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery: “The painter iona […]
Hudson River School painters at the New-York Historical Society
Martha Schwendener in the NYTimes: “Ah, summer. Time to venture into the great American outdoors — or at least consider the concept by paying a […]
NYTimes Friday art reviews: Alex Hay
Roberta Smith reviews: “Alex Hay�s paintings have always operated in the unlikely gap between modernist abstraction and a precise form of rendering that relates to […]
Mart�n Ram�rez drawings at the San Jose Museum of Art
Kenneth Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle: “These days, art museums frequently introduce important exhibitions with orientation materials. They seldom enlist another institution to do […]
Sublime portraits of children reveal evolving notions of innocence
Children in portraits were first depicted only as tiny adults, little devils, or props to their parents’ ambition. In The Guardian, Antonia Fraser charts the […]
NY Magazine features Chelsea gallery recommendations
In New York Magazine, Karen Rosenberg asks, given �an afternoon in Chelsea: which shows are worth the sweltering slog?� Before all the galleries close and […]
Unrehearsed expressiveness in art
Kenneth Baker in The San Francisco Chronicle recommends The Passionate Gesture: “Hackett-Freedmaninvites us to think about whether and how we can recognize unrehearsed expressiveness in […]
From the archives: Donald Kuspit on Sean Scully
On artnet, Donald Kuspit’s erudite review of Sean Scully’s show (Sept. 26, 2006-Jan. 15, 2007) at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. For anyone interested in […]
