Outside the Box: David Carrier on the Legacy of Shaped Canvases
Two exhibitions chronicle the disparate and sometimes radical uses of shaped canvases since the 1960s.
Cancer, Chemo, Comedy: David Brody on Matt Freedman’s Cancer Treatment Journal
David Brody on Matt Freedman’s dark, comic, and touching memoir of recovery from cancer.
Annabeth Rosen at Ventana 244
Annabeth Rosen adds her trippy offering to the Summer of Love for Ceramics.
Fuzzy Reception: Michael Berryhill at Kansas
Berryhill’s new punning paintings tease viewers and confound their expectations.
Beautiful Prisoners: Victoria Fu at Simon Preston and the Whitney
Hot colored video art on the Lower East Side, up thru Sat, June 7
Polly’s Pathway: Polly Apfelbaum and Friends at Tyler and Clifton Benevento
In 1972 Color Field painter Gene Davis created what was billed as the world’s largest painting, “Franklin’s Footpath,” a “ground” mural that stretched along an expanse of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway sweeping up to the monumental steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sponsored by the museum’s Department of Urban Outreach, this outlandish project had … Continued