Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Contributed by Riad Miah / Taylor Anton White and Andy Woll�s solo exhibitions opened at two galleries next door to each other in Tribeca, White�s at Monica King Contemporary and Woll�s at Denny Dimin Gallery. Their bodies of work are outwardly different, but they are both visually as well as […]
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari � a French philosopher and a French psychoanalyst, respectively � published Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It became something of an intellectual sensation. Among other things, they challenged Freud�s focus on the Oedipus complex as an irrepressible source of […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Not every filmmaker can emulate Alfred Hitchcock and cue Chet Baker in a feature debut shot on a shoestring budget and avoid appearing shamelessly trite or derivative, but Belgian director and co-writer Dimitri de Clercq pulls it off with his captivatingly twisted, noirish romance You […]
Contributed by Cody Tumblin / “Vaudeville,” Laurel Farrin�s solo show at Devening Projects in Chicago, contains an assortment of painted objects that each hold a healthy measure of humor and delight in their making. Although the works are often simple in appearance and construction, they contain intentionally irresolute and sensitive, […]
On January 16, 2020, artist and curator Jason Stopa invited Katherine Bradford, Sharon Butler, Craig Stockwell and Thomas Micchelli for a panel discussion about the issues abstract painters are addressing today. The conversation took place at Monica King Contemporary, a new gallery in Tribeca where Stopa organized “New Skin,” an […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Martin Scorsese directed what was probably the best American movie of the year ��The Irishman�� and it garnered not a single Academy Award despite ten nominations. The film�s Netflix backing and correspondingly enervated theater release annoyed key players in the Academy and appeared to doom […]
Greetings from the Penn State School of Visual Arts in State College, Pennsylvania, where I�ve been invited to give a lecture as part of the John A. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 11, at 11:30. If you’re in the area, the talk takes place in in the Lipton […]
Contributed by Medrie MacPhee / Before Susanna Heller’s paintings were wrapped and shipped to Toronto for her upcoming solo show at Olga Korper, I brought Sharon Butler by her studio, which straddles the line between Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Susanna and I moved from Haliifax to the East Village after we […]
Contributed by Kim Uchiyama / �Specific Forms� at Loretta Howard Gallery illuminates a particular moment in 20th century art history where works created by a variety of artists occupied the space between the then diverging ideologies of a young Donald Judd and those of the older critic Clement Greenberg. Saul […]
