In the Boston Globe Cate McQuaid reports that George Nick, one of the teachers at Massachusetts College of Art when I got my BFA back […]
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Jim Isermann’s squareness
In ArtForum this month, Annie Buckley picks Jim Isermann�s elegant psychedelic paintings, which have graced the walls, floors, and ceilings of galleries, hotels, universities, stores, […]
Rita Ackermann’s Texas diary
As part of the Artist-in-Residence program at The Chinati Foundation, Rita Ackermann packed her bags, headed to Texas and chronicled her adventures with gun smugglers, […]
Weekend Twitter links
From the Two Coats of Paint Twitter feed. Sharon Arnold (remember the art blog Artomaton?) curated this year’s Seattle Erotic Art Festival http://bit.ly/uaVVO Cindy Tower’s […]
NY Times Art in Review: Powhida, Katz, Minter
“WILLIAM POWHIDA: The Writing Is on the Wall,” Schroeder-Romero, New York, NY. Through May 16 Holland Cotter: William Powhida, art world vigilante, virtuoso draftsman, compulsive […]
Sharon Louden’s animated drawings in Philadelphia
In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Edith Newhall writes about Sharon Louden’s installation at Gallery Joe: If you’ve seen Sharon Louden’s paintings and drawings, you’ve noticed how […]
$20,000 awards for “demonstrated leadership and entrepreneurship in the fields of art, design, architecture”
I just found this notice from Art &Education, an e-mail press release service maintained by ArtForum and E-Flux, in my overflowing inbox (sorry if I […]
Introducing 246 Editions
246 Editions, a new DC-based art gallery/project dedicated to creating high-quality, affordable, limited edition prints by steadfast artists, has announced that their first edition, coming […]
Louise Fishman: Ignoring aesthetic wanderlust
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail I take a look at Louise Fishman’s recent show at Cheim & Read. When I saw the show, I had the same feeling I had at Susan Rothenberg’s recent show and had to write about it. Here’s an excerpt from the review.
Alice Neel at the Zwirners
David Zwirner has two concurrent exhibitions of Alice Neel�s work, “Alice Neel: Selected Works” at the Chelsea branch, and “Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s” […]
Robert Longo’s 25-foot drawing
In his current show at Metro Pictures, Robert Longo is focused on the shifts of perception that an image can at once evoke and extend […]
Donald Kuspit’s four kinds of realism
Donald Kuspit, considering Steven Assael’s paintings at Forum Gallery, writes about realism at artnet: “It seems to me that there are at least four kinds […]
If the artist makes a copy of his or her own work, can it be called a fake?
In Time, Martha Ann Overtland reports that Vietnam’s practice of reproducing noteworthy works was originally carried out to rescue the country’s artistic heritage during wartime. […]
Turner Prize shortlist: All trans-media artmakers, no video
The four trans-media artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright. “Critics of […]
Marcia Hafif: Still finding possiblities within a severely restricted practice
Edith Newhall reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer that after decades of painting monochromaticly, Marcia Hafif, now in her seventies, has added a second color. “The […]
