John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, kicks off the summer season this week with a group of solo shows by five women artists. I asked […]
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John Kelly: The body is never abstract
Contributed by Bill Arning / In the mid-1980s, great art experiences of every conceivable stripe seemed to bloom prodigiously and …
Anne Wehrley Björk: Where sharks once thrived
Contributed by Jonathan Agin / Formed by erosion over millions of years, Chaco Canyon was the site of the Ancestral …
Laura Newman: Flatness and the illusion of depth
Contributed by Adam Simon / A photographer friend once asked me why painters are always talking about the space in …
Peter Plagens’ portals and vortexes
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / At Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Peter Plagens’ bracing new abstract paintings don’t so much as invite …
Su-Mei Tse, composer and orchestrator
Contributed by Joe Fyfe / A large souvenir brochure accompanied Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man” tour in the late 1980s. …
George Morrison, Native American modernist
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Before going to see “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” at the Met, I …
Jane Haimes: Rehabilitating geometric abstraction
Contributed by Michael Brennan / A painter I once knew – a highly regarded abstractionist, modernist, and lover of Matisse …
A nocturnal dance at Springs Projects
Contributed by Patrick Neal / As we orbit Winter Solstice, marking the shortest days, longest nights, and coldest temperatures of …
The Columbus Museum of Art’s clever tribute to Artemisia Gentileschi
Contributed by David Carrier / Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654) has been much celebrated for two generations, in a now vast critical …
Susanna Coffey: One of the last artists standing
Last Artist Standing, Sharon Louden’s compelling new anthology, features essays by a selection of artists who have managed to pass …
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