Sarah Schmerler in The Village Voice: “This smart little offering of Minimalist drawings is curated by Christian Rattemeyer (late of Artists Space). He’s scarcely been […]
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Critics weigh in on Stella Vine’s show at Modern Art Oxford
In the Telegraph, Richard Dorment reports a change of heart about Stella Vine’s paintings: “Imagine my amazement to discover that there is something to Vine’s […]
At Boston’s Allston Skirt Gallery: a small, dark, and stinky slice of the art-world pie
In The Phoenix Sharon Steel writes about “Pull My Finger,� a new group show at the Allston Skirt Gallery, curated by artist Joe Zane: �Artists? […]
Paintings in the National Gallery: national heritage, art-historical legacy or status symbols?
Chris Bryant reports in The Times: �The news that seven major artworks on loan to the National Gallery, London, might be sold and may leave […]
Georges de La Tour�s long forgotten nocturnes exhibited in UK
Laura Cumming in The Guardian: �It scarcely seems possible that there could be any old masters left to rediscover, yet so it is with the […]
At the Boston MFA artists grapple with war
Ken Johnson writes in The Boston Globe: �As the war in Iraq grinds on toward no very clear end, collective reaction to it by contemporary […]
At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain of contemporary visual language
Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly: �One of the most pronounced symptoms of the wide-scale institutionalization of artistic practice has been the rise of curatorial […]
Churches draw on the spiritual inspiration of contemporary artists
Valerie Gladstone points out in the NYTimes Travel section: “As a wave of contemporary art installations is being unveiled in cathedrals, churches and chapels across […]
Karen Kilimnik’s Philadelphia salon
Dorothy Spears in the NYTimes: “When Robert Wuilfe, curator of Landmarks Contemporary Projects in Philadelphia, learned of Karen Kilimnik’s interest in creating a site-specific installation […]
Mass-produced paintings at Urban Outfitters for $39.99
Cassandra Neyenesch in The Brooklyn Rail: “Mass-produced canvases for sale at Urban Outfitters, though of course decorative, offer a pointed commentary about the way art […]
Venice Biennale: serious and smart
Kim Levin in The Brooklyn Rail: “So many skulls, tibia, ribcages, soldiers in uniform, mortally wounded dolls, and flocks of birds morphing into missiles or […]
Painter Tony Shore awarded Baltimore’s $25,000 Sondheim Prize
Baltimore Sun art critic Glenn McNatt reports that Tony Shore, whose portraits of family and friends painted on black velvet capture the poignant and gritty […]
Torture survivor depicts Khmer Rouge’s murderous legacy
Sopheng Cheang in The Irrawaddy: “The Khmer Rouge’s murderous legacy has been depicted in art by a survivor of an infamous torture center run by […]
NYTimes Friday art reviews
Milton Avery watercolors and Sarah Peters drawings are reviewed in the NYTimes today. Roberta Smith on Sarah Peters: �In her first solo show, Sarah Peters […]
Denver hosts first exhibition from the Clyfford Still estate
Kyle MacMillan in The Denver Post reports: �Denver was chosen in 2004 as the repository for the Clyfford Still estate and future home of a […]
