Posts from June, 2017

“Like A Bell Tolling Deeply In The Sea”: Fr. Paul Anel on the Paintings of Paul Jenkins


A Catholic priest offers his personal perspective


“The Impregnable Without”: Samuel Beckett and Painting


Review of “Beckett’s Thing” by David Lloyd


The Embedded Window: Laura Karetzky in conversation with Stephen Savage


Her show, at Lora Schlesinger, Santa Monica, is on view through July 15


The Right Amount of Fear: Emotion in Ancient Greek Art


A World of Emotions at the Onassis Cultural Center through June 24


What Painting Might Do: Antoni Tàpies at Nahmad Contemporary


A seemingly random selection of the Spanish master provoked close readings; from earlier this year


A Playpen Within A Battlefield: The Paintings of Lois Dickson


To greet her current show at the New York Studio School, an essay published last summer


The Return of the Real: Venice Biennale 2017


The first of artcritical’s dispatches from Europe this summer


A Gyroscopic Equilibrium: Robert Mangold at Pace


a show of recent works, on view in Chelsea through June 17


Stepping Out of Time: Sandro Chia at Marc Straus


His show of recent paintings took place in the Spring