“The Writers’ Brush, an Exhibition of Art by Writers,” curated by Donald Friedman and Jon Wronski. Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Through January 15. The first leg of the show took place in New York in September and October at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, and this incarnation is an expanded version […]
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Painter Michael Goldberg dies in his studio
Michael Goldberg , an 83-year-old Abstract Expressionist and husband of artist Lynn Umlauf, died in his Bowery studio on Sunday, apparently of a heart attack. Grace Glueck writes in the NYTimes that ‘Mr. Goldberg was a painter of strong convictions who in his youth was influenced by the gestural Abstract […]
Homing-pigeon portraits set free
On January 15 at Bonhams’ “Gentlemen’s Library Sale,” portrait paintings of pigeons go on the block. The winsome paintings, by French painter J Baldaus and British artist Edward Henry Windred, depict champion homing pigeons from World War II. In The Guardian, Mark Brown reports that a spokeswoman for Bonhams said […]
Hugo Boss shortlist gives painters the brush
In the NYTimes, Carol Vogel reports that this year�s finalists for the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize “include some of the hottest names around, and their work is heavily tipped toward conceptual and installation art. ‘A number of painters were nominated,’ said Joan Young, the associate curator of contemporary art at […]
Literally and figuratively in Houston
“Jackie Gendel and Valerie Hegarty,” CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX. Through Jan. 12. Brooklynites Jackie Gendel and Valerie Hegarty have shipped their paintings off to Houston for a show at CTRL. Gendel, what I call a classic pentimenti-ist, paints and over-paints, obliterating layers of imagery in the process, while leaving some […]
Larger-than-life drawing
“Big Drawing,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY. Through Jan. 19. This five-person group show features huge drawings by Sharon Horvath, Graham Nickson, Karlis Rekevics, Michael Volonakis and James Weingrod. Media include ink, acrylic, charcoal, and Plexiglas. In the NY Sun, Alix Finkelstein compares the drawings to Renaissance cartones. […]
John Morris knocks on wood
“John Morris: Paintings on Panel,” D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY. Through Feb. 3. Selected by ArtCal as a top pick last week, John Morris, who is known primarily for work on paper that features built up surfaces and repetitive forms reflecting his fascination with systems and patterns, has created a […]
Michael Fallon: Chronicling artistic failure
In his art blog The Chronicle of Artistic Failure, Michael Fallon studies how art is failing in this country. Part journalism, part concentrated research, part memoir�it�s a series of blog-postings and articles that tell the tale of his own failure as an artist and what this failure has meant to […]
Michael Craig-Martin: U is for Cynic
“Michael Craig-Martin: A is for Umbrella,” Gagosian Gallery, London. Through Jan. 31. In The Observer, Rachel Cooke writes that Craig-Martin has been turning out work that is repetitive, mundane and just a tiny bit cynical. “Craig-Martin has never stopped being interested in the meanings we invest in quotidian objects: the […]
Joe Amrhein still in Florida
“Joe Amrhein: New Work,” Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL. Through Jan. 5. In today’s Palm Beach Post, Gary Schwan’s audio Art Lesson! column features Joe Amrhein’s painting Infinity, 2007. “Amrhein is a former sign painter who runs a Brooklyn art gallery when he’s not painting bold pictures that […]
