In an elegant group show at Minus Space, “Neither Here nor There but Anywhere and Everywhere,” curator Matthew Deleget has selected work that looks visually simple, but each piece tells a deeper story about camouflage, subterfuge, and the act of making art. Rooted in stripped-down Minimalist aesthetics and the work […]

“Maybe it [painting] appears that way [dead] if you spend much time in New York City�s major museums, where large group shows of contemporary painting are breathtakingly rare, given how many curators are besotted with Conceptual Art and its many often-vibrant derivatives. These form a hegemony as dominant and one-sided […]

In the NYTimes Robin Pogrebin writes about the problem with museum expansion, a topic I covered in “The Super-Sizing of American Art Museums,” an article published in The American Prospect in 2007. Unfortunately, the problems I anticipated five years ago during the museum expansion boom have arrived. Here’s an excerpt […]

An Edvard Munch exhibition opens at Tate Modern today. Curator Nicholas Cullinan writes on the Tate blog that the exhibition looks “beyond the clich�s of Munch as an angst-ridden and brooding Nordic artist who painted scenes of isolation and trauma” to focus on the neglected aspects of his often radical […]

In the Gorky’s Granddaughter interview with Thomas Nozkowski that I posted last week, Nozkowski said he never uses tape or rulers to draw his lines because he believes that painters should work to their “level of performance.” I saw two shows this weekend that reminded me of this: Todd Chilton […]

Four years ago White Columns director Matthew Higgs’s proposal for the 6th Berlin Biennale considered the relationship between non-representational art and everyday life, but his submission was rejected in favor of Kathrin Rhomberg’s “what is waiting out there.”  Higgs has finally dusted off the original proposal and used it as […]