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 […]
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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 […]
Is Danny Ocean in Zurich?
The art thefts in Switzerland this week would make a worthy sequel to Oceans Thirteen. Carol Vogel reports in the NYTimes that three men wearing […]
Yau on Schnabel: Pedestrian at best
In The Brooklyn Rail, John Yau compares Julian Schnabel to Jean Cocteau, another self-agrandizing artist who was a better filmmaker than a painter. “What aberration […]
Yvonne Jacquette: night owl
“Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY. Through May 4. For 30 years, Yvonne […]
On Jasper Johns at the Met
At artnet, Donald Kuspit suggests that Johns is a good avant-garde conformist, and that his gray is evocative of the “man in the gray flannel […]
Strode in St. Louis
“Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings,” curated by Sabine Eckmann and Meredith Malone. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Through April 21. […]
NYTimes Art in Review: Martin, Bradford, Poons
“Chris Martin,” (click through for good set of images) Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 1. Roberta Smith: “It makes sense that Mr. […]
Aaron Bagley: Experimental guy
In The Stranger, Jen Graves profiles her friend, artist Aaron Bagley. “Given that he’s everywhere, you’d think it would be possible to synthesize his style, […]
Miami Beach: Swimming in pigment
Here’s an excerpt from my report on the Art Basel Miami Beach experience in the recently released February issue of The Brooklyn Rail.“To feed Two […]
Thanks Joy!
At All Things Visual, the University of Chicago Visual Resources Collection’s blog, Megan Macken asked Joy Garnett, the Associate Library Manager at the Robert Goldwater […]
