According to the NYTimes science blog Dot Earth, blogger Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet�s limits. Supported in part by a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Mr. Revkin tracks news from suburbia to Siberia, and conducts an interactive exploration of trends and ideas with readers […]
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Toledo in Princeton
“El Maestro Francisco Toledo: Art from Oaxaca, 1959-2006,” organized by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. Through Jan. 6. Dan Bischoff reports in The Star-Ledger: “Toledo is a later generation modernist. […]
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin drawings at the Frick
“Gabriel de Saint-Aubin,” curated by Colin B. Bailey, Kim de Beaumont, and, from the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg, and Christophe Leribault. Frick Collection, New York, NY. Through Jan. 27. This exhibition includes fifty drawings and a few paintings and etchings that range in subject from ancient history to portraiture to the […]
Homework assignment: Art Blogger Survey
At Grammar.police, Kriston Capps invited art bloggers to answer the questions Peter Plagens formulated for his Art in America roundtable discussion about art blogs: “Of course the great advantage to the blogosphere over print media is its boundlessness,” Kriston writes. “After reading the Art in America roundtable on art blogs […]
Shepard Fairey in London
“Frank Shepard Fairey: Nineteeneightyfouria,” StolenSpace, London. Through Nov.25. On the occasion of Fairey’s inaugural London exhibition, The Guardian reporter Alex Rayner talks to scoundrel, chief propagandist and provocateur Shepard Fairey, creator of the ubiquitous “Andre the Giant” stickers. “What sets Fairey apart from other graffiti fanatics is the scale of […]
German history paintings: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Meidner and Steinhardt
“Allemagne, les Ann�es Noires,” or “Germany: The Black Years,” organized by Annette Vogel and Bertrand Lorquin. Mus�e Maillol, Paris. Through Feb. 4. In the NYTimes, Alan Riding reports: “It can be argued that Impressionism killed off historical painting, and with it the tradition of portraying military victories on canvas. Yet […]
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is overflowing with non-profit galleries. Due to the availability of generous funding from the Carnegies, Mellons and other industrial barons, these galleries don�t need to sell the art to make a buck. I�m not sure that�s a good thing for the local starving artists, but it explains why Pittsburgh […]
Jesse Reichek retrospective in New Mexico
Jesse Reichek: Concerning the Mystical in Art,” curated by Sara Otto-Diniz. University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerue, NM. Through Dec. 21. Eva Dameron reports in the University of New Mexico’s Daily Lobo that “in 1971, painter Jesse Reichek withdrew from the New York art world. He felt the commercial […]
Courbet retrospective in Paris
“Courbet,” curated by Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-R�aulx, Gary Tinterow, and Michel Hilaire. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Through Jan. 28. Schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Feb.27 to May 18; Mus�e Fabre, Montpellier, June 13 to Sept. 28. The exhibition, which includes over 130 paintings […]
New reviews: Kara Walker’s racy cutouts
“Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love,” organized by Philippe Vergne and Yasmil Raymond, both from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Whitney Museum of American Art, , New York, NY. Through Feb. 3. UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA March 2 to June 8, 2008. At […]
