In the Wall Street Journal, Lance Esplund reports that Carl Plansky’s paintings of flower bouquets — some nearly seven feet tall — threaten to leap […]
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Growing season at UBS Art Gallery
The UBS Art Gallery’s exhibition, “Implant,” features work ranging from botanically accurate sculptures and paintings, to abstract gestures inspired by flora, to conceptual works suggesting […]
Studio pin-ups from Germany
The little pictures and postcards that artists hang on our studio walls create a visual guide to our artistic DNA. Over in the corner, or […]
Philip Guston’s stories
The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first major survey of Guston’s drawings in 20 years. Organized by the KunstMuseum Bonn, and the Staatliche Graphische […]
On Jasper Johns at the Met
At artnet, Donald Kuspit suggests that Johns is a good avant-garde conformist, and that his gray is evocative of the “man in the gray flannel […]
Fetching Freud’s etchings
“Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings,” curated by Starr Figura. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Dec. 16 through Mar. 10. The press release says […]
Seurat’s light and shadow
“Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” curated by Jodi Hauptman. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Through Jan. 7. This exhibition, the first NYC show of […]
Kara Walker’s racy cutouts arrive at the Whitney
“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. […]
Rembrandt and pals stir unlikely controversy in Gotham
The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by Walter Liedtke, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Paintings. […]
Learning to love abstraction (with footnotes)
�The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006,� at the National Academy Museum, New York, NY. Through February 2008. Benjamin Genocchio […]
August cool
In a shortlist for NY Magazine, Rachel Wolff recommends these shows as a respite from the grueling NYC humidity: �The Abstract Impulse,� at the National […]
Guggenheim’s Pousette-Dart show draws reviews
“Richard Pousette-Dart,” curated by Philip Rylands with Luca Massimo Barbero. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. August 17- Sept. 25. Exhibition travels to […]
Wrangling over Rudolf Stingel
Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice: �Zigzagging between figuration and abstraction, his disparate oeuvre is filled with conceptual antics, optical pleasures, and abject traces of […]
