“Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy,” curated by Deborah Rothschild. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Through Nov. […]
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Courbet biography: Dirty laundry is the emperor�s new clothes
�The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture� (Princeton; $45), by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu Peter Schjeldahl’s review in the New […]
At long last, the visual arts are well represented at Edinburgh festival
Ruaridh Nicoll reports in The Observer: “Not long ago, artists would complain about the degraded place the visual arts occupied at the festival. Sure, the […]
Rogue NYC galleries open in August
[NOTE: Published in July 2007] In the NYTimes, Seth Kugel provides a listing of galleries that are open in August: “We’re approaching August in Manhattan, […]
Il Lee ballpoint pen drawings at the Queens Museum
“Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings,” curated by Joanna Kleinberg. The Queens Museum of Art, New York. Through Sept. 30, 2007. The Queens Museum of Art introduces […]
MOMA paintings bring the outdoors indoors
Holland Cotter suggests a mini-vacation to see the paintings at MOMA this summer: “In the hot months artists have traditionally fled Paris and New York, […]
Paintings at at Lennon, Weinberg: “Taking Shape”
Frank Holliday reviews the show in the Gay City News: “Painting is not very suited to today’s pace. We live on quick fixes and instant […]
NYTimes Friday art reviews: a few paintings at Jack Shainman and Casey Kaplan
Read more.“THE COLOR LINE,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY. Through Aug. 3. Holland Cotter: “The artist Odili Donald Odita shaped this group exhibition around, […]
New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India
Alan G. Artner declares in the Chicago Tribune: “This is a show so full of works embodying meaning that it makes the Western fondness for […]
Somerville: Boston’s Williamsburg
Greg Cook reports in The Phoenix: “Boston art can often seem constipated. This is an academic, institutional city…Somerville, though, has become a bastion for the […]
The Provincetown beat
Provincetown, MA, unlike most tourist hotspots, has a serious gallery scene. Exhibitions, crammed full of paintings, change every two weeks. Openings are on Friday nights.Current […]
The branding of Mona Lisa: a lesson for young artists
Mary Blume reports in the International Herald Tribune: “If, as Andr� Malraux said, museums do not simply exhibit masterpieces but create them, Sassoon adds that […]
Hirst buys Insects
Colin Gleadel reports in the Telegraph’s Market News: “Last week Damien Hirst bought an entire exhibition before it had even opened. Clearly flush from his […]
An Iraqi artist’s response to an unfathomable reality
Maymanah Farhat reports on electroniciraq.net: “The fundamental nature and creative force that has propelled the evolution of Iraqi art is what curator Ulrike al-Khamis has […]
Hearts, Minds, and Abstract Expressionism
For more on the relationship between government funding and international art collaborations between institutions, check out “Arts and Minds,” an article I wrote for the […]
