Alan Hollinghurst writes in The Guardian that Howard Hodgkin, now in his 70s, continues to make reckless,unanswerably new paintings.”In many of his paintings, Hodgkin famously […]
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Pathetic Fallacy (Second Version): Toby Ziegler in Santa Monica
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports that 35-year-old British artist Toby Ziegler skillfully mashes up art history and current technology with cheerful, pungent eccentricity […]
Non-bombastic: Blue and white, red
The fiercely-contested presidential election, energized by the Iraq debate, is bombarding us with patriotic imagery: the waving flags, the campaign buses plastered with candidate logos […]
The complex privacy of James Bishop
James Bishop’s relatively rare drawings and paintings— which American poet and art critic John Ashbery once called “part air, part architecture” — combine European and […]
Amy Sillman’s couple fixation
In the Washington City Paper Maura Judkis reports that the �he� and �she� of Amy Sillman�s solo show at the Hirshhorn Museum, �Third Person Singular,� […]
Zimmerman saws wood in Chelsea
For Andrew Zimmerman’s first solo show, he has cut wood panels into wavy strips with a jigsaw, and reassembled them to create an organic geometry. […]
Dallas: David Bates paints Katrina’s victims
David Granberry at the Dallas Morning News writes about David Bates, whose recent paintings presented at Dunn and Brown Contemporary depict the victims of Hurricane […]
Ann Craven speaks in Cambridge
New York-based artist Ann Craven paints wistful, Disneyesque images of birds and deer with a delicate, unhurried touch. She also paints the moon from life […]
Iraqi painter Karim Alwali meets Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko
In the San Francisco Chronicle Meredith May reports that Karim Alwali, one of the most recognized abstract painters in Baghdad, is now painting memories of […]
“All power to the hardboiled intellect”
Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Color Chart show at MoMA: “Predominant are attitudes of ironic detachment that derive from Marcel Duchamp, whose rebuslike canvas of […]
Links: Musicians who paint
For readers like me who are drawn to dopey famous-people-who-paint stories, The Observer’s Casper Llewellyn Smith points out five painter/rockers today.Marilyn Manson The controversial goth […]
John Currin confesses in British press that stupidity is liberating
John Currin’s recent paintings, which will be presented by Sadie Coles HQ in London this April, feature pornographic images that Currin found on the internet. […]
Matt Connors at Canada
In his first solo show at Canada, Matt Connors presents a predictably sloppy version of modernism. Although I don’t see the “rigor of an Ellsworth […]
“A No Paintings Biennial would’ve at least made everyone hysterical”
Jerry Saltz writes that the Whitney Biennial curators obviously have eyes for installation, sculpture, and video only. “There are 81 artists in this show, only […]
NYTimes Art in Review: Edward Wheeler and Edgar Bryan
Roberta Smith on Edward Wheeler (1912-92), a contemporary of Philip Guston (1913-80), who offered among the sharper alternatives to Abstract Expressionism. “Wheeler�s work started to […]
