Posts from July, 2011

The Weight of Narrative: Photographs of David Goldblatt


His exhibition at Johannesburg’s Market Photo Workshop,  founded under Apartheid


The Review Panel: September 30 Launch of Eighth Annual Season


Carly Berwick, Ellie Bronson and Peter Plagens will be David Cohen’s guests


“along the needle of my heart”: Leonora Carrington, 1917-2011


In tribute to the Surrealist painter, a poem from David Pollard’s Self-Portraits series.


Punk Rock Nirvana: Matt Jones’s Multiverse


Was at at Freight + Volume this spring.


Anatomy of a Sitting: Lucian Freud Paints A Portrait


Review of Martin Gayford’s recent book, Man with a Blue Scarf


Are You Experienced? Ken Johnson on Psychedelic Consciousness


After you read this book, lots of familiar art will look different


“The Bewildering Multiplicity of Things Seen”: Landscape Paintings of Hilton Miller


The 80 year old artist received his debut in London earlier this year.  He is father of Irish painter Nick Miller, currently showing at the Concord Art Association


“The Wall of Vagina” at (where else?) The Hole


Performance by The Girls of Karen Black took place at the Bowery’s newest gallery on June 27


Art is for Everyone: Caravaggio and Street Protests in Louisville, Kentucky


Channeling their own brand of the Arab Spring, arts community protests unseat the 30 year head of the city’s arts trust; plus an exhibition of Caravaggio…


Sin City Goes Tea Total


artcritical editor David Cohen reports from the World Tea Expo, Las Vegas