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Even Charlie Finch loves Chris Martin (but hates Chelsea)
“After Yale, Chris embarked on a haphazard journey of shows in galleries like John Good, Bernard Toale, Daniel Weinberg and Sideshow. A small band of […]
Luc Tuymans and Mickey Mouse
Luc Tuymans is, as they say, a painter’s painter, and in his show at Zwirner, his new paintings glow. Zwirner’s press release explains that Tuymans […]
Heath Ledger portrait story sounds fishy to me
Megan Lynn from pagesix.com reports that painter Vincent Fantauzzo has entered a Heath Ledger portrait into the 2008 Archibald Prize competition. The Archibald Prize, sponsored […]
Ghada Amer’s threaded paintings in Brooklyn
While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia […]
Tuymans the new Mr. Big
On everyone’s list of favorite painters, Luc Tuymans is usually near the top. His early abstract-ish paintings, small and wan, were nothing if not winning…but […]
Chan, Molnar and Wozniak at Platform
Launched in September 2007, Denise Bibro created Platform to highlight local New York-area curators, emerging artists and spotlight works outside of the mainstream. Currently on […]
Precisionist Elsie Driggs retrospective at Michener Museum
Known primarily as a Precisionist painter, Elsie Driggs (1898-1992), in the course of her long career, also painted still life and the figure. After studying […]
Dada London
This spring the Tate Modern presents a big Dada show that includes over 400 works, among them Duchamp�s Nude Descending a Staircase (No21) , Fountain […]
Mara Korkola paints Toronto
Mara Korkola, whose current show is up at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, paints the humble, the everyday. Her weakness is for representational painting that dissolves into […]
NYTimes Art in Review: Loren MacIver
I spent the day yesterday in the MoMA archives researching a story about Loren MacIver for the March issue of The Brooklyn Rail, so I’m […]
Alfred Harris’s shredded words
The paintings in Alfred Harris’s third solo show at Froelick Gallery in Portland reference the poem “Drummer Hodge” by Thomas Hardy. The poem describes the […]
Fire in Florida destroys over 100 paintings
In a fire at an Army Navy store in Lakeland, Florida, over 100 Robert Butler paintings were destroyed. The store�s owner was an avid collector […]
Harriet Korman’s stubborn streak
Harriet Korman’s sixth solo show at Lennon, Weinberg is comprised of paintings made in the past three years, as well as several black and white […]
Gouache-apolooza in Chelsea
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Gouache, an expensive opaque watercolor-like paint, has been around for millennia. It dries fast, yields a sublime matte finish, and […]
