Dave Eggers, Jesse Nathan, and Jordan Bass have organized Lots of Things Like This, a show that opens tonight at Apexart. Here’s an excerpt from […]
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Mark Bradford’s live feed in LA
IN the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports about a sign that went up over Steve Turner Contemporary, a Wilshire Boulevard gallery directly across the street […]
Jaudon: Greater incident and interest
Current Art Pics takes a look at Valerie Jaudon’s show at Von Lintel Gallery, and includes plenty of links to related artists and materials. “Jaudon […]
Schjeldahl on Demuth: Slanting rays of abstracted light
Peter Schjeldahl reports: “Most esteemed for his floral and figurative, often homoerotic watercolors, Demuth in his painful last years, confined to his home town in […]
Small work: Fab Fair four
The Armory Show, Pulse and Red Dot had plenty of painting to look at this year, but here are four artists whose work called out […]
Art Bloggers @ Red Dot open discussion
Thanks everyone for coming to the art blogger panel discussion. I’m sure the audience had more to contribute, so the panel questions (we didn’t get […]
Lame review of the week: O’Sullivan reviews Sillman at the Hirshhorn
Arts generalist Michael O’Sullivan ‘s clueless Washington Post review of Amy Sillman’s show proves why more painters and artists must start writing. “There’s something underneath […]
Julia Jacquette: “I’m a sucker for house porn”
Ariella Budick reports that Jacquette bases her virtuosically executed paintings on photographs from glossy shelter magazines. “Chandeliers glitter, massive gilt mirrors festoon palatial bathrooms and […]
James Nelson’s coiling, sausagey shapes
In the Philadelphia Inquirer Edith Newhall reports that the faint, lacy pencil-rendered patterns in James Nelson’s drawings of a few years ago have given way […]
“Mediocre art in expensive frames”
Two Coats of Paint won’t get to the fairs until tomorrow, and I suspect we’ll love the sheer volume of paintings (a good antidote to […]
Brian Rutenberg: “I believe in the power of art that has strong ties to a specific place but also has universal berth”
Brian Rutenberg’s recent paintings are influenced by Cubism, which he calls the “delicious conflict between naturalism and abstraction or� bending the laws of nature to […]
Deborah Brown loves animals
At artnet, blogaphobic Charlie Finch writes that his old pal Deborah Brown has captured the feeling of Pier 25 and other natural NYC sites in […]
Self-hallucination suggesting a multiple organ transplant performed by a surgeon with a degree in Surrealism: Carroll Dunham’s early work
“Self-hallucination which initially suggests a multiple organ transplant performed by a surgeon with a degree in Surrealism” is how Klaus Kertess described Dunham’s aesthetic back […]
Show of the week: James Siena At Pace Wildenstein
From the press release: James Siena�s new work, completed in 2006 and 2007, includes approximately 20 enamel paintings on aluminum or copper and 60 works […]
“Painting is only the prop”
At Catherine’s Art Tours blog, art historian and critic Catherine Spaeth assesses the importance of painting in Whitney Biennials past and present. “One of the […]
