Willard Boepple: Looms at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
The author finds unexpected links between Boepple and the Surrealist phase of Alberto Giacometti
The Unknown Blakelock at the National Academy Museum
In addition to his spontaneous brushstrokes, Blakelock explores a decalcomania-like technique of load, press, smear, and lift. This emphatically material-based process creates a raised, textural web of paint activity with a few scattered reds, oranges and yellows flecking a surface that is eerily similar to Jackson Pollock’s and as interesting to ponder.
Zero in NY at Sperone Westwater Gallery
Working outside the gallery system, these artists made single-evening exhibitions, often in their own studios, issuing manifestos with these events. While some artists involved with Zero, like Lucio Fontana, are well recognized in America, this is the first survey of the lesser-known group in the States.
Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures by Cynthia Saltzman
At the end of the Civil War, there were very few significant paintings in America. By the start of the Great War, however, thanks to a surprisingly small group of men and women, the extensive collections we possess today had started to be formed. Cynthia Saltzman, a marvelously writerly writer, has studied the literature, read … Continued
New China New Art by Richard Vine
Vine and artist Zhang Hongtu present revised/expanded edition at New York Public Library this Wednesday (February 1)
William Steiger at Margaret Thatcher Projects
William Steiger at Margaret Thatcher Projects