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NY Times Art in Review: Mickalene Thomas, Allan D’Arcangelo, Sarah Crowner
“Mickalene Thomas: She�s Come Undone!” Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY. Through May2. Roberta Smith: Yet there is a fast-food obviousness to these paintings. Their potpourri […]
Kasarian Dane ‘s expanding color
Over at Visual Discrepancies, Brent Hallard talks with lifelong ice hockey fan and St. Lawrence University art professor Kasarian Dane about the painting process. Dane’s […]
Peter Saul: “Monument to garish, adolescent overkill”
In the NY Observer, Mario Naves reports that Peter Saul’s paintings at David Nolan aren’t as funny or caustic as they should be. “Bernie Madoff […]
Ross Bleckner recruiting artists to fight child enslavement and trafficking
On Tuesday Simone Monasebian, the New York chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, announced that Ross Bleckner will be the next […]
Press Release of the Week: Stuart Cumberland at The Approach
“In a detached manner, alone in the studio, Stuart Cumberland begins painting by dropping his trousers and pants to his ankles and howling the names […]
Bruce Pollock: Nothing is what it seems
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall reports that Bruce Pollock’s new paintings at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery represent a two-dimensional distillation and multiplication of the sculptures he […]
Perle Fine: Another tough broad from the New York School resurfaces
Last year, while I was researching an article about Loren MacIver, I came across work by Perle Fine, a dedicated painter who showed with MacIver […]
Darren Waterston: What’s up with the sublime?
In the San Francisco Chronicle Daniel N. Alvarez reports that Darren Waterston’s paintings are sparked by his interest in past artists’ attempts to depict the […]
The New York School at Bowdoin College
Surveying Lower Manhattan�s disparate art world in the 1950s and early 1960s, “New York Cool,” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, […]
Matthew Fisher: Civil War troops and high school marching bands
In ArtForum Joseph R. Wolin reports that Matthew Fisher loves a man in a uniform. “His faux-na�f paintings depict soldiers dressed in fanciful costumes and […]
Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology
“Big Love,” a conversation I’m organizing via the FaceBook Event Invitation feature, is part of the “Status Update” show at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven. […]
Martin Kippenberger shines at MoMA
I finally saw the remarkable Martin Kippenberger retrospective at MoMA yesterday, which is a must-see for anyone who doubts that the physical act of making […]
Another nude painting of politicians
The painting, by Italian artist Filippo Panseca, features a nude Mr Berlusconi leaning close to an equally unclad Mara Carfagna. Two years ago, the prime […]
Maine painters awarded prizes in Biennial
At the members� opening reception for the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial last week, Purchase Prizes were awarded to three painters in the show. […]
