In the LA Times, Suzanne Muchnic visits with 90-year-old artist/activist June Wayne. Rutgers University, which established the June Wayne Archive and Study Center in 2002 […]
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Hot metal burns in Pittsburgh
Artists Carley Jean Parrish and Ed Parrish witnessed their Etna home and studio burn to the ground on January 17. They lost all the work […]
On the waterfront: Diana Horowitz at Hirschl & Adler
Diana Horowitz’s second solo exhibition at Hirschl & Adler features close to twenty new paintings, ranging in size from 8 x 10 inches to 22 […]
Smokestack symbolism in Demuth’s paintings at the Whitney
In the NYTimes, Ken Johnson writes that gay precisionist Charles Demuth might have felt marginalized by the mainly heterosexual art world. “If true, that interpretation […]
Proto-Bohemian Gustave Courbet arrives at the Metropolitan
Courbet would be glad to know that everyone’s still talking about him. In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith writes that Courbet only grudgingly accepted the title […]
The backstory: Poons and Taylor
In the NYSun, Stephen Maine writes that the absence of an artistic vanguard makes everything old new again. “Among the wildly disparate features of today’s […]
Anyone can have a dog
In the Palm Beach Daily News, Robert Janjigian chats with author William Secord. “‘The world of dogs is a very small one,’ said author William […]
The Berkenblit girl
At artnet, Adrian Dannatt reports on Ellen Berkenblit’s recently closed show at Anton Kern. “Her recent exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery consisted of 11 large […]
Cindy Tower paints in St. Louis’s abandoned factories
Malcolm Gay reports in the Riverfront Times that ex-New York sculptor/installation artist Cindy Tower is painting in St. Louis. “For the past two and a […]
Tower news
A new observation tower is in the works. Five designs (after clicking, scroll down for images)by British architecture firms have been shortlisted in the competition […]
DetroitArts sets up shop in Berlin
Former Detroit art blogger Ann Gordon, recently relocated to Berlin, reports that her new blog, BerlinArts, will take a look into the Berlin arts scene. […]
New National Gallery Director Penny nixes blockbuster shows
Nicholas Penny, the new director of London’s National Gallery, said yesterday that the 184-year-old institution had a duty to display art with which the public […]
Boston flooded with Cuban water metaphors
In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid reports that “Surrounded by Water” is too small to cover such a broad theme successfully. “These works of art […]
Two Coats of Paint renovation complete
I hope you enjoy the new three-column format and a new header image that actually fills the entire banner. The images are from les Musees […]
Douglas Florian’s 613 pages of light
Douglas Florian‘s diminutive gouache/collage paintings on paper at BravinLee programs are part of a 613 page book project called �Sefer Shel Or,” which is Hebrew […]
