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 […]
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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 […]
Personal Jesus: worshiping Warhol and Haring together
Kurt Shaw reports in the Pittsbrugh Tribune-Review: ” There is a kind of poetic logic in the fact that Warhol and Haring created religiously inspired […]
Looking at the Serra show from a painter’s perspective
Blogger Joanne Mattera writes: “The mottled and scratched surface texture, always interesting, reveals itself in daylight to be something more like skin: thick here, thin […]
Last chance to see “Colorfield Remix” in DC
CBSnews.com reported: “A city-wide celebration called “Colorfield Remix” features some 30 different exhibits honoring the homegrown Washington Color School. The Washington Color School was in […]
“My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures” premieres at the NY International Independent Film Festival
“After nearly six years of production, director/producer Johnny Boston has completed his feature length documentary titled, ‘My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures,’ a […]
Harwood Museum presents Diebenkorn’s work from grad school
Kyle MacMillan reports in the Denver Post: “With a painting from Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park” series in almost every major art museum in the country, […]
Claude Monet’s unknown drawings and sketches at the Clark Art Institute
Ken Johnson in the Boston Globe: “For Monet, the drawing problem was twofold. Practically, his drawing skills were not up to academic standards. And he […]
