Sharon Butler interviewed Louise Fishman, who passed away in July, for The Brooklyn Rail in October 2012. The interview, which was quoted in the New York Times’s obituary for Louise, is reprinted here.
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The New Casualists
Contributed by Sharon Butler / The pioneers of abstraction — the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists — emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots […]
Another World: Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition
Alice Neel, �Degenerate Madonna,� (1930), Oil on canvas. 31 � 24 inches. � The Estate of Alice Neel, courtesy David Zwirner, New York. Although there […]
The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle
In the latest issue of The Brooklyn Rail I look at Jonathan Schipper’s installation at The Boiler. What a great idea. Artist Jonathan Schipper, with […]
Growing up Wright
For the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail, my review of the Frank Lloyd Wright show at the Guggenheim veers into a personal essay about […]
Alex Katz on supersizing
In The Brooklyn Rail, Phong Bui talks with Alex Katz about his paintings and process. In this excerpt, Katz explains his early decision to scale […]
Louise Fishman: Ignoring aesthetic wanderlust
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail I take a look at Louise Fishman’s recent show at Cheim & Read. When I saw the show, I had the same feeling I had at Susan Rothenberg’s recent show and had to write about it. Here’s an excerpt from the review.
Roberta Smith on art theory: “It’s not useful to most people”
Roberta Smith recently visited Rail Consulting Editor, Irving Sandler, at his home to talk about her life and work. Here’s my favorite part of their […]
Matvey Levenstein and Phong Bui
While preparing for his one-person exhibition at Larissa Goldston Gallery, on view from through May 9th, Matvey Levenstein stopped by Brooklyn Rail HQ to talk […]
Rail Review: The Mood Back Home
I wrote about The Mood Back Home, an exhibition at Momenta Art for the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Here’s an excerpt. “Immediately confronting […]
Last chance: Greg Lindquist on Peter Doig
In The Brooklyn Rail, Greg Lindquist looks at Peter Doig’s new large-scale paintings, which are up until tomorrow at Gavin Brown and Michael Werner. “While […]
The artworld on Facebook: A primer
What�s so good about Facebook? Most art bloggers will tell you it�s a good way to connect with the people who read their blogs. They […]
Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp
I live in a seaside tourist town (this weekend is the “Cabin Fever Festival”) so I’m surrounded by impressionistic paintings of boats, water, beach, drawbridge […]
Joan Banach: GeoAb with a shot of vulgarity please
When Tom Micchelli stopped by Small A Projects, he was puzzled by Joan Banach’s dark, virtually monochromatic hard-edged abstractions that looked like they belonged in […]
Phelan: “Its like fuss fuss fuss fuss fuss and then swish”
On the occasion of her recent exhibit “Ellen Phelan Still Life” at Texas Gallery, which was on view from December 11, 2008 to January 24, […]
