Holland Cotter reports: “This small, punchy overview of Judith Bernstein�s work is set to close a week before ‘WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution’ opens […]
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Diebenkorn arrives in New York
“Diebenkorn in New Mexico,” curated by Charles Strong and Charles M. Lovell; organized by the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico. Grey Art Gallery, New […]
PaintersNYC returns with Karen Kilimnik
After a six week respite, a new painter has been forced to walk the plank at the unsparing art-crit blog PaintersNYC. Karen Kilimnik, whose paintings […]
Alberto Burri: surgeon turned artist after WWII
“Alberto Burri,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through January 19. Alberto Burri (1915 � 1995) was born in Citt� di Castello, Italy. He earned […]
How Pattern and Decoration broadened the artworld’s horizon
�Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985,� curated by Anne Swartz. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Through Jan. 20. Check out Librado […]
Morris Louis investigation
“Morris Louis,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY. Through Jan. 19.Widely recognized as an influential American post war painter, Morris Louis became an inspirational figure […]
Stress may lead to tasteless posts
Dan Fost reports in the NYTimes that maintaining a daily blog can be stressful.
Painter Michael Goldberg dies in his studio
Michael Goldberg , an 83-year-old Abstract Expressionist and husband of artist Lynn Umlauf, died in his Bowery studio on Sunday, apparently of a heart attack. […]
Hugo Boss shortlist gives painters the brush
In the NYTimes, Carol Vogel reports that this year�s finalists for the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize “include some of the hottest names around, and their […]
Cranch’s transcendental landscape paintings at the Lyman Allyn Museum
“At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch,” curated by Nancy Stula. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT. Through Feb. 24. […]
Carousing with the Ashcan School boys
�Life�s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists� Brush With Leisure, 1895-1925,� curated by James W. Tottis. New-York Historical Society, New York, NY. Through Feb. 10. Artists include […]
Marion Majori’s close-up of Chuck Close
“Chuck Close,” produced, directed and edited by Marion Cajori. Directors of photography, Mead Hunt, Ken Kobland and David Leitner; song �Portrait of Chuck� by Philip […]
Words Smith loves to hate
In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith takes issue with current art jargon, particularly the newly fashionable use of the word “practice” to describe the artmaking process. […]
Charles Shaw’s precisionist geometries
�Charles G. Shaw,� Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY. Through Dec. 22.�Manhattan Modern: The Life and Work of Charles Green Shaw, � Archives of American […]
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 […]

















