Over the summer Joshua Abelow, painter and editor of ART BLOG ART BLOG, started a gallery (also called ART BLOG ART BLOG) in a Chelsea space generously donated by Abelow’s former boss (and friend), Ross Bleckner. Abelow invited friends and acquaintances to organize quick two-week exhibitions that mimicked the fast […]

The Peabody Essex Museum needs ten artists to make two huge murals for Michael Lin‘s FreePort project. Back in the late 1990s, Lin began enlarging ornamental fabric designs in architectural installations and has since created murals all over the world.  Sometimes his installations provide new functions – caf�, discussion platform, […]

New York artist Kymia Nawabi beat out contestants Young Sun and Sara in the final episode of Bravo’s Work of Art last week. Her winning exhibition, which looks far more sophisticated than the exhibition mounted by last year�s winner, is on display at The Brooklyn Museum through February 5, 2012. […]

Last week the list of artists selected for the 2012 Whitney Biennial was leaked, and everyone scrambled to see who was on it. Few of the names were familiar to me other than painters Nicole Eisenman, Andrew Masullo; artists Mike Kelley, Liz Deschenes, Vincent Fecteau, Nick Mauss, and Elaine Reichek; […]

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a freelance writing project, which takes me to unexpected periods on the art history timeline. As an undergraduate art history major who didn’t start painting until several years later, I studied the paintings from an academic perspective, so stumbling across these […]

Bilge, blarney, bunk. Mel Bochner has been exploring the intersections of linguistic and visual representation for over 45 years. The excellently verbose exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (through April 2012) includes 43 thesaurus-inspired paintings and drawings, including Money, Die, Useless, Obscene, and Sputter; a new monochrome painting (Blah, […]

This week I participated in final critiques for the MFA programs at the Hoffberger School of Painting and Brooklyn College. I had a terrific time with Joan Waltemath, Raphael Rubinstein (who has a new article about abstract painting underway), Jennifer McCoy, Archie Rand and so many other interesting artists. Overall, […]

Curated by Craig Olson, “Idiot’s Delight” at Janet Kurnatowski  is about joy, materiality, a wholehearted embrace of the impractical. “It�s an idiot�s delight, blowing like a circle around our skulls, blowing through the buttons of our coats,” Olson writes in his statement.  “It carries and encourages us to seek these […]