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Lois Dodd: Like a house on fire
Alexandre Gallery presents six recent large-scale paintings that octogenarian Lois Dodd painted during the final years of the Bush Presidency. Each depicts the image of […]
Marilyn Minter: It’s about maintaining the integrity of the ideas
Marilyn Minter’s work examines glamour and its seedy underbelly through a juxtaposition of photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs which hone in on the moment where […]
Carl Plansky: “The more I see contemporary painting distrust feeling, the more feeling I put into my painting”
In the Wall Street Journal, Lance Esplund reports that Carl Plansky’s paintings of flower bouquets — some nearly seven feet tall — threaten to leap […]
Fran O’Neill: Slow evolution, constant undulation
At online mag ArtCritical, David Cohen selects Fran O�Neill’s second solo show at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, as the Pic of the […]
Multitasking painters like me
As if in response to my discussion with hyperallergic Hrag last night about multitasking vs. concentrated monofocus, in the NY Times this morning Holland Cotter […]
Lance Rutledge: “I don’t know what the message is. I don’t want to send a message anyway.”
At The Old Gold, Jon Lutz visits Lance Rutledge’s studio. Here’s an excerpt from their conversation. JL: Some of the works function more as �signs� […]
How to increase value of your art collection despite market downturn
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers stopped a drug-smuggling attempt when they seized 6 large paintings with the frames full of packages of marijuana. On […]
Wiser than God
If you stop in to see “Younger than Jesus,” the New Museum’s first triennial survey of new art from around the world, check out “Wiser […]
Celmins painting slasher sentenced in Pittsburgh
Remember last year when a former guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art slashed a Vija Celmins painting? Timur Serebrykov, 28, who slashed Night Sky […]
Younger than Jesus: Thomas Roberts
In lieu of attending the press opening of the New Museum’s “Younger than Jesus” exhibition today, which features fifty artists under 33-years-old, I’m posting about […]
Rail Review: The Mood Back Home
I wrote about The Mood Back Home, an exhibition at Momenta Art for the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Here’s an excerpt. “Immediately confronting […]
Upcoming show: “Status Update” in New Haven
“Status Update,” curated by Debbie Hesse and Donna Ruff, at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, April 29 through August 1, explores social networking technologies. My […]
Christopher Willard: On being thin
I’m a little behind with my reading (this review is from March), but wanted to post Nancy Tousley’s Calgary Herald review of Christopher Willard’s show […]
Suddenly, Mira Schor
For the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail, which is probably already in the racks and should go online shortly, I wrote about a show […]
