In The Phoenix, Greg Cook writes that all the work in this year�s DeCordova Annual is “proficient, but nothing wows � or freaks you out. […]
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Hrag Vartanian on Brooklyn’s street art
In The Brooklyn Rail, Hrag writes that street artists are rebellious lawbreakers exerting their right to public space, but on the other hand they are […]
Eve Plumb paints, too
Eve Plumb may be best known for playing Jan Brady on the dopey but strangely compelling 1970s television series “The Brady Bunch,’” but she’s a […]
Shameless promotion of an old friend’s spellbinding new book
In The New York Observer, Adam Begley recommends Lise Funderburg’s recently released memoir, Pig Candy. “If you’re after a memoir pure and simple�a life exposed […]
Rauschenberg is dead
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night of heart failure. He was […]
2008 Turner Prize shortlist: No painters this year
The Tate today announced the four relatively unknown artists who have been shortlisted for the 2008 Turner Prize. As usual, no painters were selected, although […]
“Elizabeth Peyton can really paint”
In Time Out New York T.J. Carlin writes that to paint people is to watch them grow old on an infinitesimally small scale of time, […]
Mothers’ Day linkfest: Bloggers on painting
Check out Joanne Mattera’s post on Thomas Nozkowski, Tomma Abts, and Roberto Juarez. She’s chosen to report on these three artists as a group, because […]
Anne Seidman’s oddball forms
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall calls Anne Seidman’s paintings acts of faith rendered in color on rag board. “Since her show here three years […]
NY Times Art in Review: Kannemeyer, Quabeck, Bessone, Nilsson, Dodge
“Anton Kannemeyer: The Haunt of Fears,” Jack Shainman, New York, NY. Through May 17. Ken Johnson: “A Tintin-style painting for a Bittercomix cover shows a […]
Studio update: Itinerant painter
Contributed by SHaron Butler / Every professor has a wildly optimistic, first-day-of-summer-vacation “List of Things To Do.” Here’s mine. The most significant decision has been […]
Yau on Helen Miranda Wilson
In The Brooklyn Rail, John Yau suggests that Helen Miranda Wilson, whose show at DC Moore recently closed, has moved beyond the Americana references of […]
Abts’ traction
My contribution to the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail is a review of the New Museum’s Tomma Abts show. “For Abts, honesty and sincerity […]
Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book
In celebration of The Nancy Book, published by the Siglio Press, Tibor de Nagy has organized a show of Joe Brainard’s drawings of the Nancy […]
Taaffe retrospective: Bending the shape of time
In ArtForum, Bob Nickas reviews Philip Taaffe’s current retrospective at the Kunstmuseum-Wolfsburg in Germany. “It’s not so easy to recall that first hit, that immediate […]
