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. […]
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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 […]
Jukkala doesn’t name names in New Haven
The current show at Artspace in New Haven, CT, highlights seven painters whose abstract work focuses on elements of color, shape, and surface. The imagery […]
Bill Jensen’s long and winding nature trail
His current exhibition at Danese focuses on a large group of black and white, ink and tempera works on paper, made between 2005 and 2008, […]
Gelsy Verna, 47, passed away unexpectedly, cause of death unknown
On Tuesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Art Department announced that painting professor Gelsy Verna had died unexpectedly. The cause of her death is […]
Art Bloggers @ Red Dot
Artbloggers @ Red Dot, Sunday, March 3010:00 to noonEvent blog: ArtBloggers@Who are all these bloggers? Joanne Mattera and I have organized an informal panel discussion […]
Marie Thibeault’s extravagant wreckage in LA
In the LA Weekly Doug Harvey reports that Thibeault was riveted by the imagery that emerged from the maelstrom of bad weather and inept government […]
Joy Garnett stops the passing glance
This is the last week to see Joy Garnett’s show at Winkleman. In Time Out New York, Jennifer Coates reports that the four large paintings […]
Charles Cohan’s terminal hieroglyphs
“In what may be the smallest art gallery in the United States, you can discover the whole world.” Blake Gopnik reports in The Washington Post. […]
Agnes Martin daydreams
In The Brooklyn Rail, Jeremy Sigler makes a pilgrimage to see Agnes Martin’s last drawing. “I went to Agnes Martin�s drawing show at Peter Blum […]
“Bitter slog” for painting in the Whitney Biennial
“Devotees of painting will be on a near-starvation diet, with the work of only Joe Bradley, Mary Heilmann, Karen Kilimnik, Olivier Mosset and (maybe) Cheyney […]
Tracking proto-feminist Loren MacIver
Check out my article about Loren MacIver in The Brooklyn Rail’s March issue.“In my first college painting course, which I took several years after completing […]
2 Biennial artists in the MassArt family
My alma mater sent this notice today, and since the Whitney Biennial’s painting selection is pretty skimpy, I’m passing it along as my primary coverage […]
