Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Inspired by Isabella Stuart Gardner, a Boston philanthropist who traveled the world amassing a remarkable art collection and then built a palazzo on the Fenway to display it, Louis and Charlotte Hyde collected art for over fifty years and built a Italianate home in Glens Falls, New York, to house […]
Contributed by Will Fenstermaker / When the light shifts, Yoshiaki Mochizukis paintings come alive. Surfaces that seem like dull mirrors shift into prismatic events as light is corralled in the gouged layers of gesso and moon gold leaf. Exhibited at Marlboroughs Chelsea location, the paintings are untitled, but the show […]
Brece Honeycutt, a friend and colleague who divides her time between New York and a farm at the foot of the Berkshires in Massachusetts, recently sent a newsy update about what she’s been doing in her barn-studio on the farm. Honeycutt is fascinated by the lives of the people who […]
The energetic paint handling in Eric Aho�s work is like a shot of adrenaline for contemporary painters. In a solo exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Aho presents a selection of paintings (many of which were shown at DC Moore last year) that fuse portraiture and landscape, […]
From the MTA website: “Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines is a mosaic mural that honors Harlem notables and makes them fly. The mural on one platform depicts performers, painters, and sports figures like Dinah Washington, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Josephine Baker. The opposite platform shows leaders like Malcolm X […]
Last week I went to Cape Cod, where I had paintings in an exhibition at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. I enjoyed participating in a panel discussion that they had organized, and also managed to check out some galleries in Provincetown and visit a couple studios. […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /Edmund de Waal�s pensive exhibition, recently up at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, was inspired by the artist�s intensive reading of German Jewish philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin�s Berlin Childhood Around 1900. Benjamin, who committed suicide in 1940 at age 48 while fleeing the Nazis, grew […]
Often curated by artists, summer group shows provide a window into the hive mind. Accordingly, I’ve put together a short list of exhibitions that are organized around the themes and ideas that artists are talking about in current conversations. Excerpts from press releases are included, and in case readers can’t […]
In 1947, Lucio Fontana (Italy, 1988-1968) launched the Movimento Spaziale in Italy. The movement was primarily concerned with the utilization of neon, radio, television to make innovative art, but Fontana’s investigation also led to a series of monochromatic canvases that he slashed with razor cuts. For Fontana, the cuts incorporated […]
Contributed by Barbara Campbell Thomas / I first laid eyes on the work of Hilma af Klint (Stockholm, 1862-1944) in 1999, while an MFA student at the University of California at Berkeley. Towards the end of a particularly fruitful studio visit, that day�s visiting artist gifted gave me with a […]
