Self-taught painter Lucy Hunnicutt is profiled by Arnold Wengrow in the Asheville Citizen-Times. “Hunnicutt’s house had a wood stove. ‘It was a real cold winter,’ she said. “People think Florida doesn’t get cold, but you know it does.’ One night when she was feeding some scraps of cypress wood into […]
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Lawrence Weiner’s words
“Lawrence Weiner: As Far As The Eye Can See,” co-curated by Donna De Salvo, Whitney Museum Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs, and Ann Goldstein, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Senior Curator. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. November 15, 2007-February 10, 2008. At MOCA […]
NYTimes Art in Review: Chris Ofili, Elif Uras, Thomas Eggerer
“CHRIS OFILI: Devil�s Pie,” David Zwirner, New York, NY. Through Nov. 3. Holland Cotter reports: “Mr. Ofili has always been forthright about the devotional spirit of his art; here he makes the cross-cultural nature of the spirit clear, and a little too clear. Time and further experimentation should bring the […]
Act your age
“The art student was shocked. The carefully prepared presentation collapsed under a surprisingly simple if not quite obvious question the visiting guest professor posed: Why do your paintings look like those of a fifty-year-old man? Why would a well educated young artist want to emulate the historic gesture of a […]
Interview with Lari Pittman
In the LA Times, Dean Kuipers spends 60 seconds with Lari Pittman. Pittman will be featured on PBS Art: 21 on Oct. 28 and has a show at L.A.’s Regen Projects II. “‘l always take the time to look at the women’s clothes and shoes. It’s not that I’m interested […]
In Boston: Hannah Barrett and Sharon Horvath
“Hannah Barrett: The Secret Society,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA. Through Oct. 30. “Sharon Horvath: Paintings and Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Through Oct. 31. Sharon Horvath’s new series of densely layered line paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art is made with dispersed pigment and polymer on canvas. […]
Georg Baselitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Giuseppe Penone, and Dorothea Rockburne select
“Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters,” curated by Isabelle Dervaux. Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY. Through Jan. 6. “Drawing Connections” explores the correspondences between contemporary and old master drawings. Georg Baselitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Giuseppe Penone, and Dorothea Rockburne have been invited to select drawings […]
Gaylen Hansen retrospective in Seattle
“Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings,” curated by Keith Wells. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Through Jan. 6. Organized by the Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. See images of his work. A retrospective of Washington-based painter Gaylen Hansen features more than 30 paintings drawn from public […]
Trying to say what it means to be human
“Timothy Hawkesworth,” Redbrick Studios, Beverly, MA. Through Nov. 2. �I paint the experience of being in a landscape, painting your body�s response,� Timothy Hawkesworth says. �To me that�s the power of landscape, to open us up to experience.� Read more. Note: This is TCOP’s official Blog Action Day Post. “The […]
Ofili shows us the long journey, the big picture
“Chris Ofili,” David Zwirner, New York, NY. Through November 3. This is Ofili’s first NY solo show since The Holy Virgin Mary came to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999 and sparked a huge controversy. Ofili now lives in Trinidad and no longer uses elephant dung on his canvases. In New […]
