I’m taking a road trip upstate to Oneonta this week to help the Art Department at SUNY do an academic program review. University of Connecticut’s […]
Tag: The Brooklyn Rail
The art world’s downmarket retreat
Last year, my first article published in The Brooklyn Rail examined how an impending art market “correction” might affect artists. “In a fairly typical scenario, […]
Marc Van Cauwenbergh’s de-simplification
In The Brooklyn Rail, Stephanie Buhmann takes a look at Marc Van Cauwenbergh’s show at Kathleen Cullen. “Instead of exploring the emotive and non-objective, Van […]
Show & tell: Contemporary practice in artists’ books
In the October issue of The Brooklyn Rail I write about artists’ books and how on-demand printers have made book publishing affordable for unfunded artists. […]
Joan Snyder’s new work in Boston
MacArthur Foundation fellow Joan Snyder, 68, presents new paintings at the Neilsen Gallery in Boston, and ten politically-charged photocollages at the Danforth Museum in Framingham. […]
John O’Connor: Recording small events, missteps, and changes of direction over time
In The Village Voice RC Baker reports that John O’Connor uses ‘haphazard research’ and personal obsession (body weight, lottery numbers, weather reports) as inspiration for […]
Brooklyn Rail silent art auction: Buy this painting!
Join me at The Brooklyn Rail Silent Art Auction, hosted by Pace Wildenstein, on September 5, from 6-9pm, where you can bid on my painting […]
Two restoration tales: Ad Reinhardt and Imi Knoebel
In July issue of The Brooklyn Rail, I wrote about an Imi Knoebel installation at Dia:Beacon. The installation, billed as a restoration of Knoebel’s 1977 […]
Resnick’s resonance
Milton Resnick: “Art is not a learning process. It is the very reverse of learning.It is the unhinging of your soul from your sight.” In […]
Lost in space: Art post-studio
The June issue of The Brooklyn Rail has gone online today. My contribution examines studio space, and how some artists making traditional art objects (painting, […]
Hrag Vartanian on Brooklyn’s street art
In The Brooklyn Rail, Hrag writes that street artists are rebellious lawbreakers exerting their right to public space, but on the other hand they are […]
Yau on Helen Miranda Wilson
In The Brooklyn Rail, John Yau suggests that Helen Miranda Wilson, whose show at DC Moore recently closed, has moved beyond the Americana references of […]
Abts’ traction
My contribution to the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail is a review of the New Museum’s Tomma Abts show. “For Abts, honesty and sincerity […]
America’s Lessness
My contribution to the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail considers the notion of readymade color, the implications of the current Whitney Biennial, and the […]
Show of the week: James Siena At Pace Wildenstein
From the press release: James Siena�s new work, completed in 2006 and 2007, includes approximately 20 enamel paintings on aluminum or copper and 60 works […]
Agnes Martin daydreams
In The Brooklyn Rail, Jeremy Sigler makes a pilgrimage to see Agnes Martin’s last drawing. “I went to Agnes Martin�s drawing show at Peter Blum […]
Tracking proto-feminist Loren MacIver
Check out my article about Loren MacIver in The Brooklyn Rail’s March issue.“In my first college painting course, which I took several years after completing […]
Yau on Schnabel: Pedestrian at best
In The Brooklyn Rail, John Yau compares Julian Schnabel to Jean Cocteau, another self-agrandizing artist who was a better filmmaker than a painter. “What aberration […]
Miami Beach: Swimming in pigment
Here’s an excerpt from my report on the Art Basel Miami Beach experience in the recently released February issue of The Brooklyn Rail.“To feed Two […]
Writerartists in Cambridge
“The Writers’ Brush, an Exhibition of Art by Writers,” curated by Donald Friedman and Jon Wronski. Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Through January 15. The […]
