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Tag: NY Times
Picasso: “Unless your picture goes wrong, it will be no good”
In the NY Times Roberta Smith writes that the show of late Picasso paintings at Gagosian proves that, in the main, Picasso only got better. […]
NY Times Art in Review: Richard Tuttle, Richard Phillips
“Richard Tuttle: Walking on Air,” PaceWildenstein, New York, NY. Through April 25. Ken Johnson reports: Richard Tuttle’s new fusions of painting and sculpture are a […]
NY Times Art in Review: Leon Kossoff and Xylor Jane
“Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years, 1957-1967, “Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 28. Roberta Smith reports: This show is an informative treat. […]
NY Times Art in Review: Robert Mangold
“Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper 1965-2008,” Pace, Wildenstein, New York, NY. Through April 4. Holland Cotter reports: “Taken in isolation, none of these […]
NY Times Art in Review: Art Green and Josh Smith
“Josh Smith: Currents,” Luhring Augustine, New York, NY. Through March 14. (Note: The paintings look better as JPEGs than they do in the gallery.) Ken […]
Another Yuskavage show in NYC
A few years ago in the NY Times, Ken Johnson wrote that Lisa Yuskavage’s paintings were sly, soft-porn fantasies of pneumatic women in hazes of […]
Munch: Navigating the messiness of his own present
The Munch exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Jay A. Clarke, brings together approximately 150 works, including 75 paintings and 75 works […]
Bonnard: Folding together form, color and feeling
Roberta Smith on Pierre Bonnard at the Met: “Working simultaneously on several unstretched canvases tacked directly to the wall, he painted largely from memory with […]
“Every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it”
“In the mid-1930s, as her writing career was just starting to take off, Eudora Welty thought she might become a photographer. As a junior publicity […]
Second thoughts: Archeology of Wonder at Real Art Ways in Hartford
RAW’s Director of Visual Arts, Kristina Newman-Scott’s first curatorial effort, “Archeology of Wonder,” aims to examine the way we use artifacts and art to approach […]
NY Times Art in Review: Tazeen Qayyum, John Wesley, Alexi Worth, Keltie Ferris, Trenton Doyle Hancock
“Tazeen Qayyum,” Aicon Gallery, New York, NY. Through Jan. 11. Karen Rosenberg: “Insects also figure in small paintings by Tazeen Qayyum, who renders cockroaches and […]
“In these scary times, investment in spiritual expansion may be the best investment of all”
In the NY Times Ken Johnson reports that “The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors” in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. “That may […]
Enrique Mart�nez Celaya: “Shiny paint makes me feel like I can�t breathe”
In the NY Times, Jori Finkel profiles Enrique Mart�nez Celaya, whose show recently opened in LA. “The questions he explores in painting (and in his […]
Eric Karpeles: Paintings in Proust
Randy Kennedy wrote in the NY Times that long before Marcel Proust died in 1922, his novel about art and memory, In Search of Lost […]
