All three tales in Super Host are witty, moving, and beautifully written, but its Emma Eastons that raises the most provocative questions about the often torturous relationship between an artist and her work
Tag: Book review
Art and Film: Mark Asch’s New York
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Rivaled only by Los Angeles among cities celebrated in American cinema, New York deserves its own pointedly knowing and satisfyingly […]
Art and Books: Joanne Mattera remembers
Contributed by Sharon Butler / How artists apprehend the world is framed largely by their early experiences. Yet, unless artists achieve blue-chip success, we rarely […]
Laura Blacklow on painterly photo processes
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On the occasion of the Association of International Photography Dealers (AIPAD) sponsored Photography Show that is taking place on Pier 94 in NYC this […]
Reading David Salle
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schlatzlein / David Salle, in the 1980s an enfant terrible of painting, has published�How to See,�a collection of essays on art and […]
Lost recipes and other stories of painting’s past
Back in Colonial times, before bottles of medium and tubes of premixed paint were readily available in the local art supply store, painters were like […]
Must read: James Elkins deciphers the Art Critique
Contributed by Sharon Butler / After participating in final critiques at Brooklyn College and MICA last semester, I posted some notes for grad students about […]
Book excerpt: A PAINTER’S LIFE by K.B. Dixon
UPDATE (May 11, 2010): Dixon’s book has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Book Award for independent publishing. According to their […]
Fictional painter’s prose portrait from Doubleday
The Great Man a novel by Kate Christensen, Doubleday: 308 pp., $23.95. In the NYTimes, Janet Maslin reviews this fictional posthumous portrait of a painter: […]
Jubilee City: Joe Andoe’s memoir at full speed
“JUBILEE CITY: A Memoir at Full Speed” by Joe Andoe. Illustrated. 207 pages. William Morrow. $22.95. Visit Joe’s website Amy Finnerty in The NYTimes Sunday […]
Courbet biography: Dirty laundry is the emperor�s new clothes
�The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture� (Princeton; $45), by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu Peter Schjeldahl’s review in the New […]
