Contributed by Peter Plagens / The first edition of the Getty-sponsored “Pacific Standard Time” slate of exhibitions in 2011 was subtitled simply “Art in L.A., 1945 – 1980,” and it aimed to elucidate Southern California’s contribution to American postwar modern art. In 2017, the second iteration was called “LA/LA,” indicating the city’s Latin American art and artists. This time around PST has declared a more specific theme, “Art and Science Collide,” reminiscent of one of those noble Rose Parade rubrics…
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Les Gommes: Becky Brown and Annette Cords at PS122
Contributed by Axel Bishop / In a collaboratively constructed two-person exhibit at PS122, Brown and Cords experiment with the interplay of image-experience vs. knowing through written language.
Cezanne’s pursuit
If theres one word that sums up Paul Czanne (1839-1906), the subject of this massive MoMA exhibition, its struggle.
Catalogue essay: Abstract Art Does Not Stop an Hour
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The works in Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age are, for all their reliance on what we call “technology,” […]
Carter Ratcliff: Art in the age of Trump
Contributed by Carter Ratcliff / Let�s begin with a painting�not sure it�s a work of art�that could have been painted only now, during Trump�s presidency. This […]
Rainy day in New York
When I got to the studio this dreary grey morning, my coat and tote bags were sopping wet. Looking up from the building’s entrance on […]
Ideas and Influences: Brece Honeycutt
Artist and citizen naturalist Brece Honeycutt lives in Massachusetts, on a colonial farmhouse in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. Fascinated with the history of […]
Interview: Daniel Kingery in Hunt’s Point
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / The four paintings I looked at in Daniel Kingery‘s Bronx studio are all medium-sized, human scale. Paint application strategies vary […]
Web world: The New Museum’s 2015 Triennial
Entering the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial “Surround Audience” is like stepping into someone else�s search history. If you�re passionate about the same information that he […]
Painting strategies at the 2012 Whitney Biennial
The 2012 incarnation of the Whitney Biennial features (in addition to a huge slate of film and video screenings in a side room and performance on […]




































