Gary Snyder/Project Space, which has primarily focused on historically rooted abstract art, is having its first exhibition of contemporary painting. In the NY Sun Stephen Maine writes that Snyder’s show offers “the delicious paradox of a tightly curated exhibition attesting to the fecund sprawl of contemporary abstract painting. The show’s […]
Month: July 2008
Shipping Guernica
At Looking Around, Richard Lacayo has a good summary of the situation with Picasso’s “Guernica,” and a little history lesson about the Spanish Civil War to boot. “Probably the most famous work of art about wartime suffering, ‘Guernica’ has been for years at the center of a tug of war […]
Supporting Warhol’s Time Capsule project
Remember Andy Warhol’s “Time Capsules?” This serial work, spanning a thirty-year period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, consists of 610 standard sized cardboard boxes, which Warhol, beginning in 1974, filled, sealed and sent to storage. Warhol used these boxes to manage a bewildering quantity of material that […]
Sanford Wurmfeld’s non-mimetic panorama painting in Edinburgh
At the Edinburgh Art Festival, which starts this Thursday, Sanford Wurmfeld is presenting an E-Cyclorama – a 21st Century version of the once popular 19th Century panorama paintings. The “E” stands for elliptical – the project itself is a giant painting on the inside of a huge cylinder. Pauline McLean […]
Could Reality TV be (gasp) good for the artworld?
When I first graduated from art school, Stefan Stux looked at slides of my work and proclaimed, “This may be good, but it’s not going to change the course of art history!” Wouldn’t this make a suitably idiotic catch phrase for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new art reality TV show? According […]
Retinal probe at Laguna Beach
In “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor,” The Laguna Art Museum presents the work of 150 artists who have a visual affinity with merch-happy Juxtapoz magazine. Founded in San Francisco in 1994 by Robert Williams, the Juxtapoz aesthetic references movies, TV, advertising, black-velvet painting, psychedelic posters, pulp […]
NY Times Art in Review: Hopper, Ellis, “Constraction,” Pearlstein
“Edward Hopper: Etchings,” Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY. Through Aug. 15. Ken Johnson: “Early in his career, when the demands of commercial illustration left him little time to paint, Edward Hopper turned to printmaking and produced some of the most moving and memorable graphic images in 20th-century American […]
Imi Knoebel’s restoration at Dia: “24 Colors–For Blinky”
In the July/August issue of The Brooklyn Rail, check out my article about Imi Knoebel’s 1977 installation, which, thanks to generous funding from Gucci, has been recreated at Dia:Beacon. “After Palermo’s mysterious death at 33, Knoebel took the essential components of Palermo�s mostly small-scale work (color, shape, carefully conceived site-specific […]
Cy Twombly’s juggling act
In the NY Sun David Cohen writes that the Cy Twombly retrospective at Tate Modern is a reminder that no matter how intellectually ambitious, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. “In room after room, this survey offers spare yet dynamic canvases, or cruddy yet evocative sculpture. […]
Retro fashion: John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Haim Steinbach
In Time Out Nuit Banai reports that this “gang of old-timers” at Nicole Klagsbrun are back in fashion. “While not veering far from their respectively well-trodden paths, all three artists appear more relevant than ever. Armleder, known for his performances of the 1960s and �70s and hard-edged abstraction of the […]
