Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / If youre looking for pure beauty, or merely a tiny aesthetic tingle, Cameron Rowlands exhibition is not for you. Contemplating […]
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By Laurie Fendrich / Critics have been lavish in their praise of the Brown, queer-themed figurative paintings by the Pakistani-born Brooklyn artist Salman Toor, currently […]
The stories we choose to tell: “Fall Reveal” at MoMA
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The Museum of Modern Art�s �Fall Reveal� marks the second phase of the museum�s re-telling of the story of Modern […]
Art and TV: Professor T, an extraordinary burst of mind
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Boy did the otherwise on-the-mark Guardian television critic Lucy Mangan get it wrong. In her 2017 review of the Flemish […]
Summertime blues: Clark, Fagan, Carrigan, Dubicki, Hocker, and Samelson in Torrington
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / To walk into an open art gallery during this COVID-caused gloaming of the art world is perhaps to catch a […]
Finding Esphyr Slobdokina
Contributed by Peter Plagens / When the annual The Armory Show art fair — which takes place on the piers on the Hudson River in […]
What good is abstract painting now?
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Without any bombs exploding or even a single shot fired, the world we knew before COVID has gone poof. Sure, […]
Will Agnes Pelton Ever Get Her Due?
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Pause for a moment to pity the painter Agnes Pelton (1881–1961). While she was alive, she was mostly overlooked; after […]
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,” […]
Moira Dryer: Satisfyingly complete
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Moira Dryer (b. 1957; d. 1992) was among the first painters in the 1980s and �90s to reject minimalism and […]
Invitation: Houses in Motion, a tectonic tremor
UPDATE: Saturday, November 23, 3 pm, please join us for “Ask the Artist,” where we will be yakking about the contemporary state of abstraction. Did […]
Vija Celmins: To fix the image in memory
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Anyone walking out of the Vija Celmins retrospective that opened last week at SFMoMA thinking how good she is at […]
Fiction: The Square Drawing [Laurie Fendrich]
Today marks the beginning of the Two Coats of Paint fiction column, a special summer section featuring short stories about artists, collectors, galleries, and other matters […]
Fiction: The Teddy Bears [Laurie Fendrich]
Our second installment of summer fiction is “The Teddy Bears,” an amusing short story written by artist and arts writer Laurie Fendrich about a mid-career artist whose […]
Fiction: The Unknown Masterpiece [Honore De Balzac]
Today marks the beginning of the Two Coats of Paint fiction column, a special summer section featuring short stories about artists, collectors, galleries, and other matters […]
